Bill Honig drops bid to return to state Board of Education
January 10, 2011 | 1:40 pm
Less than one week after being named to the state Board of Education, Bill Honig has withdrawn his name from consideration, according to the governor's office.
Honig, who served on the state board during Brown's first tenure as first governor and went on to be elected state superintendent of public instruction three times, was among the governor's most controversial early appointments. Honig resigned as state superintendent in 1993 after being convicted in a conflict-of-interest case involving state education payments received by his wife'
