Calif. Names New BOE Members

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Gov. Jerry Brown named seven new appointments to join the existing four members of the State Board of Education.

 

Trish Williams of San Jose heads EdSource, an independent non-profit K-14 research and communications organization that provides extensive data, policy analysis and research. Under Williams’ leadership, the organization gained increased national recognition for partnering with other researchers to develop large-scale empirical studies identifying educational practices associated with improved student outcomes, according to group.

 

Carl Cohn of Palm Springs, current President of the EdSource Board of Directors was also appointed after serving as the superintendent of the Long Beach and San Diego Unified School Districts. He currently also serves as Co-director of the Urban Leadership Program and Clinical Professor in the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University.

 

Louis "Bill" Honig of Marin County was reappointed after serving under Jerry Brown on the State Board of Education from 1975 to 1983. He is President of the Consortium on Reading Excellence and previously held positions as a San Francisco State University Visiting Distinguished Professor at the School of Education, Superintendent of Public Instruction from 1983 to 1993.

 

Dr. Michael Kirst, a Professor Emeritus at Stanford, also served under Jerry Brown from 1975 to 1982, and has served as the Director of Program Planning for the U.S. Office of Education and Staff Director for the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Manpower, Employment, and Poverty from 1967 to 1969. 

 

Coming from Bakersfield, Aida Molina was appointed after serving as the Executive Director on Academic Improvement and Accountability for Bakersfield City School District since 2005. Molina has also worked as a Commissioner with the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing from 2004 to 2007 and was a principal in the Bakersfield, Sacramento and Galt Joint Union Elementary School Districts.

 

James Ramos of San Bernardino has served as the Chairman for the San Manuel Band of Indians since 2008, along with serving several other roles in the group. Ramos was re-elected in 2010 as a member of the San Bernardino Community College Board of Trustees, where he has served since 2005. He has served as a member and chairperson of the Native American Heritage Commission since 2007.

 

Patricia Ann Rucker of Elk Grove has worked as the Legislative Advocate for the California Teachers Association since 2008 and was a consultant for the California Teachers Association on instruction and professional development from 1997 to 2008. She also served as a teacher in the Del Paso Heights School District from 1983 to 1997.