The Biden administration selected San Diego Superintendent of Schools Cindy Marten to become Deputy Secretary of Education, the #2 job in the Department of Education.
She has a long career as a teacher, as principal of a high-poverty school in San Diego, and as Superintendent of the state’s second largest district since 2013.
Louis Freedberg of Edsource describes her career in this article.
Marten has been superintendent of San Diego Unified since 2013. But before that she had been a teacher for 17 years, as well as principal of San Diego’s Central Elementary School, a school in the diverse City Heights neighborhood where 96% of students qualify for free and reduced-priced meals.
It was after several years at Central Elementary that she made the virtually unheard of jump from an elementary school principal to being superintendent of her district — not just any district, but the second-largest district in California and the 20th-largest in the nation.
Derrick Johnson, President of the national NAACP, tweeted his support for her candidacy.
The San Diego chapter of the NAACP, strong supporters of charter schools, has criticized Cindy Marten for the CONTINUE READING: Who Is Cindy Marten? | Diane Ravitch's blog