Sue Burr

Sue Burr

Gov. Jerry Brown nominated Sue Burr to the State Board of Pedagogy on Monday, two weeks subsequently she officially retired from her dual office as the executive manager of the State Board and as educational activity policy adviser to the governor. Her new task starts Midweek, when the Board meets to take up an agenda that she helped prepare.

Burr previously served equally the executive director of the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association (CCSESA), as the undersecretary of education under Gov. Gray Davis, and as acting secretary in 2000. She has too been a member of EdSource'due south lath of directors.

Hers was i of 3 appointments that Brownish appear for the xi-fellow member lath, leaving one seat however unfilled. Burr was appointed to a four-year term. Niki Sandoval was appointed to a three-year term. Sandoval is the instruction director for the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians. She is also a lecturer and has been a projection evaluator at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition, she has served in multiple positions at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian and Museum of Natural History.

Brown also reappointed Ilene Straus, who has been on the Land Board for two years, to a full four-year term. Straus was the assistant superintendent for educational services in the Beverly Hills Unified School District before retiring in June 2011. Before that, she was a instructor and an elementary, middle and high school primary.

Board appointees, who receive a stipend of $100 per day, have a year to be confirmed by the state Senate. The State Board is the policy torso responsible for blessing curriculum frameworks, textbooks, statewide assessments and standards for student performance. Board appointees' terms are for four years unless they are filling a seat that has been vacated.

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