One-Time, Two-Year Teacher Jessica Baghian Wants to Be LA’s Next State Superintendent
Jessica Tucker Baghian wants to be Louisiana’s next state superintendent. No surprise here.
According to the February 27, 2020, Advocate, Baghian, who currently holds a state assistant superintendent position, officially applied for the state superintendent job being vacated by John White effective March 11, 2020. The application window closes on Friday, February 28, 2020.
Baghian’s resume is part of the Advocate article, and in true market-ed-reformer fashion, it is light on classroom experience: two years (2006-08). She holds two degrees: a bachelors in mass communication (LSU, 2006), and a juris doctorate (Harvard, 2011).
Louisiana native Baghian started teaching in 2006 under a one-year provisional certificate (2006-07). (To see Baghian’s teaching certificate, click here and search “Jessica Marie Tucker.”) Her highest teaching credential is an expired Level 1 teaching certificate that was issued for three years (2007-10). The note on her certificate indicates that “teacher assessment required for higher certificate,” which means in her top-heavy ed career, she has no experience in completing necessary requirements to renew a permanent teaching certificate.
Baghian holds no administrative certifications. She has no experience even as an assistant principal.
Baghain told the Advocate, “I have spent my career working on behalf of the CONTINUE READING: One-Time, Two-Year Teacher Jessica Baghian Wants to Be LA’s Next State Superintendent | deutsch29