State superintendent's old district on fiscal edge

01-04-2011

By Louis Freedberg/California Watch

Tom Torlakson, the new state superintendent of public instruction, chose to be inaugurated in the gymnasium at Mount Diablo High School in Concord where he used to teach – a school district that like many others around the state, faces a perilous financial future. Torlakson once taught biology at the school, and was coach for the cross-country and track programs. He is still technically on leave from the school. The master of ceremonies for the event, Tim Sbranti, the mayor of Dublin who also teaches at Dublin High, joked that after eight years as state superintendent Torlakson might even return to Mt. Diablo to take up his former position. That would be based on the assumption that the school district would have any positions to offer him. The boisterous atmosphere of the event could not obscure the profound fiscal uncertainties facing Torlakson's old district, and many others like it around the state. (more…)

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