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Tuck Announces Run Against Torlakson for State Superintendent

by ECT

Marshall Tuck

Marshall Tuck, 40, has announced he will challenge incumbent Tom Torlakson for the position of State Superintendent of Public Instruction in the 2014 election cycle.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Tuck confirmed in an interview that he plans to file candidacy papers Wednesday.

Tuck is expected to have the support of officials and philanthropists who have taken on teachers unions in recent years. But Tuck insisted that he does not want to be seen as a union foe and said he hopes to draw from a broad base of donors. He noted that he worked with unions in his two major roles in education, as head of a charter school organization and in leading a nonprofit that was controlled by former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

From 2002 through 2006, Tuck was president and chief executive of Green Dot Public Schools, which grew from one to 10 charters during his tenure. He also helped in the move to take control of Locke High School near Watts. Unlike most charters, Green Dot schools are unionized.

In 2007, Tuck became the first leader of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, Villaraigosa’s nonprofit. Overall, these historically low-performing schools have improved in the years since. The partnership worked under standard union contracts, but opposed the teachers union on some key issues.

Neither the two statewide teacher unions nor Torlakson’s campaign had an immediate response to Tuck’s candidacy.

Source:
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-0821-state-supt-20130821,0,7898584.story

For more information on Marshall Tuck, visit his website

 

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2 comments

been here for a long time Aug 21, 2013 - 3:08 pm

All due respect to Tom, but it is time for some new blood in Sacramento.

ECVsBrother Aug 21, 2013 - 8:11 pm

New blood for All Sacramento politicos.The local buffoons in office are doing nothing but making new laws that can’t be enforced and spending money we don’t have. When you see incumbent on the ballot vote for someone else.

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