Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Locals – Including NAACP – Oppose Biden’s Pick of Cindy Marten

Locals – Including NAACP – Oppose Biden’s Pick of Cindy Marten
Locals – Including NAACP – Oppose Biden’s Pick of Cindy Marten




Ken Stone over at Times of San Diego published a piece Monday that included critiques and opposition to President-Elect Biden’s choice of San Diego Unified schools chief Cindy Marten for a federal education post. Marten was nominated for a Deputy Secretary of Education post.

Locals who are not happy with Biden’s nomination include the NAACP’s San Diego chapter and community activist Tasha Williamson, the former mayor candidate.

Amidst the wide-spread praise for Marten, Stone writes – and he ticks off praise from everybody from Mayor Gloria to Assemblywoman Weber to former mayor Faulconer – he adds that the NAACP and Williamson oppose her nomination:

Katrina Hasan Hamilton, the local NAACP’s education chair, said:

“Educators at all levels must have a track record of dismantling the harmful practices of Anti-Black Racism that occur in schools. Cindy Marten has a historical pattern of allowing CONTINUE READING: Locals – Including NAACP – Oppose Biden’s Pick of Cindy Marten