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Wednesday, October 27, 2010; 11:43 PM
Milton Bins, 75, an education consultant who was a past deputy executive director of the Council of the Great City Schools, an education advocacy group, died Oct. 10 at his home in Leesburg, Fla. He had colon cancer.
Mr. Bins joined the Council of the Great City Schools in 1974 as a senior associate for programs and policy. He was deputy executive director from 1985 to 1992, after which he became an education consultant for technology companies. He retired in 2000.
He was a native of Hazlehurst, Miss. He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1959, a master's degree in mathematics from Chicago State University in the early 1960s and a master's degree in education from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970.
He lived in New York and Chicago, where he taught high school math, before moving to Washington in the mid-1970s. In 2004, he moved to Florida.
He received a lifetime achievement award from the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation in 2001 and was recognized for outstanding advocacy and support of public education by the Council of the Great City Schools in 1985.
He was a chairman and founder of the Douglass Policy Institute, an education think tank, and was a D.C. delegate at the 1988 Republican National Convention.
His first marriage to Gladys Minor ended in divorce. His second wife, Carolyn Fitchett Bins, died in 1981 after eight years of marriage.
Survivors include his wife of 27 years, Adrienne King Bins of Leesburg, Fla.; a son from his first marriage, Gregory Bins of Homewood, Ill; a stepson, Randall Jackson of Tavares, Fla; two sisters; three grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.
- Lauren Wiseman