District promotes from within for superintendent
By Maureen Magee/San Diego Union Tribune
Bill Kowba, a retired Navy rear admiral and trusted administrator, has been named superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District. In a hastily scheduled announcement Tuesday, the board of education ended a four-month search for a schools chief by identifying the district’s interim superintendent as its choice for the job “I’m thrilled. I have to step back and confirm that I heard what the board just said,” Kowba said upon learning that he won the job. “As excited as I am, I am under no illusions about how difficult next year will be for the district, given the budget projections.” (more...)
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