School Beat: We May Have A New Superintendent

Garcia comes to the SFUSD with a potentially powerful perspective. He has been a superintendent of large districts in and out of California, most notably Fresno Unified School District (CA), one of the largest in the state, and Clark County Unified School District (NV), encompassing the Las Vegas schools. Previous to these posts, Garcia had been principal at Horace Mann Middle School in San Francisco, which at that point was a thriving, sought after school.

These experiences put Garcia in a strong position to understand the difficulties and possibilities of the SFUSD as both an insider and an outsider. As a principal in San Francisco, he had to become familiar with the administrative and bureaucratic realities of our district, the political culture of our City and the challenges and strengths that our students bring to school. As a superintendent of large districts and an urban district, he will be no stranger to many items on the list of problems waiting to be faced head-on, the budget and the achievement gap being the first two that come to mind, both issues he has discussed in other settings.

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