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Elected every four years to a nonpartisan office, the California Superintendent of Public Instruction is the highest elected official responsible for K-12 schools. The state superintendent runs the 2,500-employee California Department of Education. Functions include administering federal grants, collecting school data, monitoring county offices of education and enforcing state education laws and regulations. The state superintendent advises the Legislature and governors on education policy and serves on the UC Board of Regents, the CSU Board of Trustees and several education agencies. (Read more)
Tony Thurmond, a social worker by training, is a two-term Assemblyman from Richmond who previously served on the Richmond City Council and the West Contra Costa Unified school board, and ran nonprofits serving young people.
Marshall Tuck, most recently Educator In Residence at the nonprofit New Teacher Center, was founding CEO of Partnership for Los Angeles Schools and first president of Green Dot Public Schools, a charter schools network.
Panelists discussed dual admission as a solution for easing the longstanding challenges in California’s transfer system.
A grassroots campaign recalled two members of the Orange Unified School District in an election that cost more than half a million dollars.
Legislation that would remove one of the last tests teachers are required to take to earn a credential in California passed the Senate Education Committee.
Part-time instructors, many who work for decades off the tenure track and at a lower pay rate, have been called “apprentices to nowhere.”
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