Bill Lucia new CEO of EdVoice
Posted in Advocacy organizationsBill Lucia is the new CEO of EdVoice, the small but influential voice for charters, public school choice, and school equity and reform in Sacramento.
The former COO of EdVoice was the obvious choice; Lucia worked closely with former CEO Rae Belisle until she resigned for health reasons last month.
Lucia has been a behind-the-scenes figure at the state Capitol for years. Past jobs include executive director of the State Board of Education, chief consultant of the Assembly Education Committee, senior staff on the Budget and Appropriations Committees, and chief of staff and education consultant to the chairman of the Senate Republican Caucus. He was also senior analyst at both the Legislative Analyst’s Office and the Department of Finance.
Posted in Race to the Top
The former COO of EdVoice was the obvious choice; Lucia worked closely with former CEO Rae Belisle until she resigned for health reasons last month.
Lucia has been a behind-the-scenes figure at the state Capitol for years. Past jobs include executive director of the State Board of Education, chief consultant of the Assembly Education Committee, senior staff on the Budget and Appropriations Committees, and chief of staff and education consultant to the chairman of the Senate Republican Caucus. He was also senior analyst at both the Legislative Analyst’s Office and the Department of Finance.
Let districts decide on Race to the Top
It’s not surprising that Supt. of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell and Gov. Schwarzenegger’s secretary of education, Bonnie Reiss, are ambivalent about reapplying to Race to the Top. You can sense the dread in between their words.
California ranked 27th out of 40 states in the first round; having gone through one knock-down over reforms, the Legislature is in no mood to go through another. Districts that didn’t sign up the first time won’t change their minds. The California Teachers Association isn’t about to encourage them. And it will take a huge amount work to make the state’s application competitive – if that’s even possible, given glaring faults that judges pointed out.
But before pulling out, state officials should at least consider a very different direction: building up by scaling back.
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California ranked 27th out of 40 states in the first round; having gone through one knock-down over reforms, the Legislature is in no mood to go through another. Districts that didn’t sign up the first time won’t change their minds. The California Teachers Association isn’t about to encourage them. And it will take a huge amount work to make the state’s application competitive – if that’s even possible, given glaring faults that judges pointed out.
But before pulling out, state officials should at least consider a very different direction: building up by scaling back.
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