Larry Doyle was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Louisville, Ky. He
has two brothers that reside in Louisville and three sons. He presently resides in
Columbia, Maryland. He attended Louisville, Ky. Public Schools, where he
graduated with honors from Louisville Central High School in 1968. Upon winning
a National Merit Scholarship, he attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,
Maryland where he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology and Urban
Affairs in 1972. Later he moved to Toledo, Ohio where he attended the University
of Toledo and received a Doctor of Jurisprudence in 1980. He practiced law in
Toledo for many years and later realized that Education Reform was his true
passion.

He earned a PhD in Education and Sociology at the University of Toledo, in
Ohio, with a minor in Peace Education in 2019. Dr. Larry Doyle’s dissertation, An
Oral History of School and Community Culture of African American Students in the
Segregated South, Class of 1956: A Case Study of a Successful Racially Segregated
High School Before Brown Versus Board of Education was nominated by The
History of Education Society for the Claude A. Eggertsen Prize for the dissertation
judged to be most outstanding in the field of history of education.

He is concerned with structural and cultural peace and was appointed to
the board of directors for The Peace Alliance. In 2013 he was inducted into the
Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society. He graduated magna cumme Laude
and is a recognized writer, and his academic papers have been ranked as high as
the top 1% in the world and can be found on Academia.edu. He has taught
American Government, Sociology and Psychology at Capitol Technology University
in Maryland. He is also a member of The Maryland Association for Justice Reform
and The Society of National Merit Scholars. In 2023 he was hired by the Howard
County Public Schools as a substitute teacher and in 2024 he was elected to The
Council of Elders of Howard County, Maryland. He is presently a Community
Liaison for the Black Student Achievement Program of Howard County, Maryland
Schools and a candidate for the Howard County, Maryland Board of Education.

His most pressing educational issues are the continued struggles of many
minority students and boys in particular, school safety for students and
educators, and educator salaries.