State Rep. Chris Reykdal, D - Tumwater, announced Thursday he will give up his House seat to
run for state schools superintendent in 2016, joining Tacoma school district administrator Erin Jones in the race for Washington's top elected education post.
The top education officials in Georgia and Pennsylvania have announced that neither state will renew membership in the Council of Chief State School Officers, a lobbying and support
group for state schools superintendents.
Maryland's newly elected governor believes it's
time for state schools Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick to say goodbye, but she says she's not leaving the job she's held for 15 years any time soon.
Marshall Tuck, who narrowly lost a 2014
race for state schools superintendent, said he agreed with the initial break on accountability during the transition to Common Core, but that moment had passed.
«A major reason why I'm
running for state school superintendent is to correct some of these policies of inequity that I've seen — and continue to see — in the highest poverty neighborhoods that just don't make sense.»
I served in the state Senate from 1977 to 1995, and in 1994 I ran
for State School Superintendent and lost to Lisa Graham Keegan.