The San Diego school board has selected a highly respected, successful elementary school principal as its new superintendent.
Cindy Marten runs a terrific school that is child-centered and community-centered.
It is an exemplar of the San Diego concept of community-based school reform.
When I was in San Diego last year, the superintendent Bill Kowba made sure that I visited Cindy’s school to see what a great school in a diverse neighborhood looked like.
Cindy is an inspirational principal and she is a great choice for superintendent.
She knows what schools need and how to support schools and encourage collaboration among students, parents, communities, and educators.
What a breath of fresh air!
An experienced educator as superintendent.
In these times, that is truly innovative!
Diane Ravitch's blog 
San Diego is a large district. This turns things on its head. Let us thank the school board for making a great move for children and their city. Let us hope that she is successful and can make that success viral in San Diego and then elsewhere. I just listened to a presentation by the math and language teachers in charge of dramatic improvements in their 100% poverty school and it all sounds the same as I would expect. Let us hope that sense comes back and these great people are successful, therefore, we must support them with all we have. San Diego is big enough to be a real proof of sanity and children first. We have watched nothing but bad from San Diego for a long time and this is so refreshing. Thank You School Board Members.
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I hope that the new taxes under Gov. Brown will really go to education. I remember in 2009/2010 that tens of thousands teachers in some California districts were laid off due to budget cuts. (In some districts the lay off list for seniority went to teachers with 8 years on the job!) I wonder how the annual “pink slip” debacle is going this year.
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Congratulations San Diego!
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How awesome! In my district, the third largest in Michigan, one of the finalists for our superintendency is our current finance manager, a bean counter with no experience within the walls of a school. Heaven help us if he is chosen!
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Good news. They actually hired someone who has education experience and won’t drive their district straight into the sewer.
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