Election 2024: How voters can help repair California schools

Daryl F. Camp began serving as the superintendent of the San Lorenzo Unified School District in 2019. Previously, he served for seven years as the superintendent of the Riverbank Unified School District. Camp has been a public-school educator in California for over 30 years, beginning in 1991 as a substitute teacher and coach in the Oakland Unified School District.

Camp is currently the president-elect for the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) and will be the president of ACSA during the 2025-26 school year.

Sara Noguchi has served as the 17th Superintendent of Modesto City Schools since June 2018. With more than 30 years of experience in education, Dr. Noguchi is dedicated to promoting equity, social justice, and the success of every student. Her career has included diverse roles, from teacher to chief executive in various communities.

She is past president of the California Association of Suburban School Districts (CALSSD), serves on the board of the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team (FCMAT), and as a member of the Superintendent Advisory Council for the California School Board Association (CSBA).

Hallie Lozano is an experienced educator with 25 years of teaching in elementary education. She currently serves as the Literacy Coach at Dyer Kelly Elementary, where she is dedicated to fostering a love for reading and improving literacy outcomes for all students. Hallie holds a Master’s degree in Teaching English Learners and a Bachelor’s degree in Child Development, bringing a deep understanding of both academic and developmental needs to her work.

Hallie’s teaching philosophy is rooted in the belief that all children can learn and that reading is a civil right, a conviction that guides her approach to education. In addition to her work in literacy, Hallie has also served as the Assistant Director and Costumer for the Dyer Kelly Theater Arts Program, where she combines her passion for education with the arts to create enriching experiences for students.

Sara Hinkley joined the Center for Cities and Schools in February 2024 to lead the Center’s work on educator workforce housing and California policies on school facilities.

Sara was a school board member in Albany Unified School District from 2018-2022 and served as Board President from 2020-2022. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley.

Brie Fraley is a lifelong resident of Del Norte county, a proud member of the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation and is raising four boys in her and her partners native culture rooted in connection to the land. As a first generation college graduate she understands the importance of k-12 education to move out of poverty, and is actively engaged in her children’s education.

John Fensterwald joined EdSource in 2012. For three years before that, he was founder and editor of the “The Educated Guess” website, a source of California education policy reporting, sponsored by the Silicon Valley Education Foundation.

For the preceding 11 years, John wrote editorials for the Mercury News in San Jose, with a focus on education. He worked as a reporter, news editor and opinion editor for three newspapers in New Hampshire before receiving a Knight Fellowship at Stanford University in 1997. His wife is a retired teacher, and their daughter is a neurology resident at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center.

Lasherica Thornton is EdSource’s Central Valley journalism resident. She was most recently the Engagement Reporter for The Fresno Bee’s Education Lab in Fresno, CA where her reporting earned her a John Swett Award from the California Teachers Association.

Previously, she was the Education & Features Reporter for The Jackson Sun, a USA Today Network paper, where she covered the educational systems for more than 13 counties. Her work garnered recognition with the Tennessee Press Association as well as local entities. A Mississippi native, Lasherica started her journalistic career in the eighth grade as a reporter and editor for her high school newspaper.

In college, she reported for her college and community newspapers and interned in Pennsylvania, covering state government and writing for six publications, including The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.