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Ca. Gov. Schwarzenegger Announces Appointments to Academic Content Standards Commission : Mon, 07 Jun 2010 : California Newswire™

Ca. Gov. Schwarzenegger Announces Appointments to Academic Content Standards Commission : Mon, 07 Jun 2010 : California Newswire™

Ca. Gov. Schwarzenegger Announces Appointments to Academic Content Standards Commission

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published Mon, 07 Jun 2010 – 16:37:06 -0700 PDT
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. /California Newswire/ — On Friday (June 4), Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the following appointments to the Academic Content Standards Commission:

Steven Dunlap, 30, of Riverside, has served the Riverside Unified School District since 2005, most recently as an elementary school teacher since 2007, intern elementary teacher from 2006 to 2007 and long-term substitute teacher from 2005 to 2006. He has worked for Highland Elementary School as an instructional technology site specialist since 2008 and a data director site trainer since 2007. Dunlap earned a Master of Science degree in education from California Baptist University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in social science from Simpson University. Dunlap is registered decline-to-State.

Williamson Evers, 61, of Laguna Niguel, has served as a research fellow and member of the Koret Task Force on K-12 education for the Hoover Institution at Stanford University since 1988. From 2007 to 2009, he was assistant secretary of policy for the U. S. Department of Education and senior adviser to the U.S. Secretary of Education in 2007. In 2003, Evers was senior adviser for education to Administrator L. Paul Bremer, Coalition Provisional Authority, Iraq for the U. S. Department of Defense and, from 1996 to 1998, was commissioner for the California State Commission for the Establishment of Academic Content and Performance Standards. Evers is a member of the National Advisory Council, Bill of Rights Institute. He is a former member of the Instructional Materials Review Committee for the Capistrano Unified School District, an external consultant and member-at-large for the Social Sciences-History Textbook Selection Committee for the Palo Alto Unified School District, reviewer of grant proposals for the Mathematics and Science Review Panel, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education and a member of the Content Review Panel for History-Social Science K-8 Textbook Adoption for the state of California. Evers earned a Doctorate of Philosophy in political science, a Master of Arts in political science and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Stanford University. Evers is a Republican.

Mark Freathy, 55, of Elk Grove, has worked as a math teacher and math department chair for the Elk Grove Unified School District since 1989. From 1986 to 1989, he was a special day class teacher at Don Lugo High School and vice principal at Ramona Jr. High School in the Chino Unified School District. Freathy is a member of the California Mathematics Council and the California League of Middle Schools. He earned a Master of Education degree in educational administration from the University of Utah and a Bachelor of Arts degree in special education from Michigan State University, East Lansing. Freathy is a Republican.

Lori Lin Freiermuth, 40, of Chula Vista, has been a teacher for the Sweetwater Union High School District