March 28, 2007

New schools secretary

David Long, the Riverside County school superintendent named this morning as Schwarzenegger's latest education secretary, doesn't have the kind of paper trail that his predecessors had on education reform issues. Schwarzenegger's first ed secretary, former LA Mayor Dick Riordan, and his second, former San Diego superintendent Alan Bersin, had long records battling unions and pushing for higher standards in the public schools. Long seems to have led a quieter career. He is a Republican, and he was listed among Schwarzenegger's backers during the recall campaign in 2003. But he was also mentioned in some materials as an endorser of last year's Prop. 82, the proposal to raise taxes to pay for universal preschool. Schwarzenegger opposed the measure.

Posted by dweintraub on March 28, 2007 2:37 PM