Charter loyalist seeks state superintendent’s seat
(Calif.) He looks too young for the trials he would face as chief of California’s large and complex public education system, but Marshall Tuck tells you right off he’s been running schools for more than a decade.
All of that time has been spent in L.A. – not Sacramento – which is something else he’s quick to mention. An early hire at Green Dot, today one of the country’s biggest and most successful charter school operators, Tuck most recently served former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa helping manage the mayor’s groundbreaking effort to turnaround 17 low-performing urban schools.
Now he wants to be California’s State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
“I made a personal decision a while back that I’m going to do whatever I could to help as many kids to have a better life as possible,” Tuck said in an interview.
“There’s been a lot of good momentum being built among the charters but traditional public schools and traditional public school systems aren’t moving fast enough,” said the 40-year-old father of one. “But again, my goal is how do I help as many kids as possible and push the education