Your guide to the California state schools superintendent race: wide-open race to replace Tony Thurmond - BERITAJA

Every Democrat connected this database could beryllium expected to activity successful wide harmony pinch a Democratic politician and successful guidance to cardinal Trump management policies.

There are differences successful their backgrounds, but only insignificant argumentation divergences, including connected the information of trans athletes successful women’s and girls’ sports.

Listed successful alphabetical order, pinch an excerpt from their study responses:

Richard Barrera, 59, is simply a longtime schoolhouse committee personnel successful San Diego Unified, the state’s second-largest schoolhouse system, a elder advisor to Thurmond and earlier that was a section labour national executive.

“The 3 experiences that champion suffice maine for this agency are the ones that required maine to govern a nationalist schoolhouse system, execute argumentation wrong the authorities agency, and understand workforce realities successful practice,” Barrera said.

Wendy Castañeda-Leal, 42, has pursued a profession successful much agrarian areas, presently serving arsenic superintendent for the Semitropic Elementary School District, which has 1 TK-8 schoolhouse pinch about 140 students disconnected Highway 46 successful Kern County. She’s besides been head of full kid acquisition for Roseland School District and a secondary replacement schoolhouse principal.

“I lead districtwide efforts aligned pinch California’s priorities by advancing equity, strengthening world achievement, and expanding supports for the full child, including multilingual learners and underserved student populations,” Castañeda-Leal said. “I besides bring extended tract activity acquisition arsenic a main astatine the elementary, mediate and precocious schoolhouse levels, wherever I improved student outcomes.”

Nichelle Henderson

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Nichelle Henderson, 57, is an elected trustee of the Los Angeles Community College District. Her acquisition profession began arsenic a school assistant. She later taught sixth people mathematics and subject successful Compton Unified. She’s presently a module advisor and objective section supervisor successful a Cal State coach mentation program.

“What it is clear among Democratic candidates is that location are candidates that are seeking this position because they want a safe spot to onshore aft having termed out,” Henderson said. “My extremity is to build the capacity of our TK-12 nationalist schools to hole students for higher acquisition and to participate successful the section and world workforce.”

Ainye Long, 41, a San Francisco Unified mediate schoolhouse mathematics section chair, ran 4 years agone pinch nary important resources and came wrong little than 1 percent constituent of making the runoff. It helped past that nary Democrat ran against Thurmond and that Republican challengers divided the Republican vote. Long besides had past — and still has — the ballot designation: “public schoolhouse teacher.” She besides is simply a past elder administrator astatine a charter-school group.

“One occupation of the [state superintendent] is to measurement the effectiveness [in believe — what really happens] of our laws, and thief to find amended ways to amended our body,” Long said. “The group closest to the activity are closest to the problems of practice, truthful they’re the first to spot the solution.”

Al Muratsuchi

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Al Muratsuchi, 61, represents the 66th Assembly District, encompassing parts of the South Bay, and has been the chair of the authorities Assembly acquisition committee. He taught concisely astatine the assemblage level and served arsenic an elected committee personnel of the Torrance Unified School District.

“I americium the only campaigner moving for State Superintendent of Public Instruction pinch the mixed acquisition of statewide acquisition argumentation leadership, ... section schoolhouse territory governance arsenic a erstwhile Torrance Unified School District committee trustee, and schoolroom educator,” Muratsuchi said, adding that he authored 23 education-related bills that were signed into law.

Josh Newman

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Josh Newman, 61, has been a authorities senator, including chairing the acquisition committee, and a exertion institution executive. He served successful the Army and taught concisely some astatine the assemblage and mediate schoolhouse levels.

“Among the Democrats successful this race, the about important favoritism is betwixt candidates whose attack to this agency is chiefly organized about labour relationships and backing advocacy, and my own, which emphasizes accountability, outcomes, and the afloat scope of students’ needs alongside continued investment,” Newman said.

Anthony Rendon

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Anthony Rendon, 58, was authorities Assembly Speaker from 2016-23, antecedently directed Plaza de la Raza Child Development Services and served arsenic main operating serviceman for Mexican American Opportunity Foundation.

He said of “the domiciled that exertion is playing successful the degradation of younker intelligence wellness and happiness. The adjacent superintendent needs to decently instrumentality California’s prohibition connected phones successful classrooms, beryllium up of the curve successful establishing policies connected generative AI use, and make judge teachers person the training and support they request to make judge the schoolroom is about learning.”

No campaigner received capable votes to triumph the Democratic Party endorsement. The tally was arsenic follows: Henderson: 24.75%; Muratsuchi 21.97%; Rendon 17.43%; Newman 16.82%; Barrera 12.77%.