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Brown nominates Darling-Hammond
- 08-04-2011
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Gov. Jerry Brown and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson have made high-profile appointments to a troubled state agency, the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. Torlakson has assigned his Chief Deputy Superintendent, Richard Zeiger, as his designee to keep a close eye on the commission. Brown this week nominated Stanford University School of Education Professor Linda Darling-Hammond as one of a half-dozen of his Commission appointees. That Darling-Hammond, an expert on teacher development whose services are in constant demand nationwide, agreed to the potentially time-consuming, non-salaried position signals that Brown wants new directions and big policy changes to the autonomous state board. (more...)
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