Who's the next school board chief?
Michael Kirst, a Stanford emeritus professor and a confidant of Jerry Brown for more than thirty years, is the leading candidate to become president of the State Board of Education, according to education sources.
It would be the same position Kirst occupied 35 years ago during the first Brown administration.
Kirst was president of the State Board of Education between 1975 and 1982. When Brown first appointed him, he was a 35-year-old assistant professor of education and business administration at Stanford – just a year
