Lamont Jackson will lead the district until at least the end of the year after Superintendent Cindy Marten was nominated as Deputy U.S. Secretary of Education.
Biden selects UW-La Crosse grad to serve as Deputy Secretary of Education
January 19, 2021 12:00 PM Stephanie Fryer
WASHINGTON President-elect Joe Biden has selected a University of Wisconsin La Crosse graduate to serve as the next Deputy Secretary of Education.
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Cindy Marten has served as the superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District since 2013. While in this position, San Diego received the highest graduate rate among big-city districts in California and the fastest reading growth of large urban districts nationwide in 2019, according to the La Crosse Tribune.
and last updated 2021-01-18 15:48:55-05 SAN DIEGO (CNS) - President-Elect Joe Biden announced Monday he has nominated San Diego Unified School District Superintendent Cindy Marten to the post of deputy secretary in the federal Department of Education.
Marten has been SDUSD superintendent since 2013. She got her start as a teacher and school-wide literacy specialist in the Poway Unified School District and has worked as an educator for 32 years, including 17 years as a teacher and stretches as principal and vice principal.
She worked for 10 years at Central Elementary in the City Heights neighborhood, where she established a bi-literacy program, a hands-on school garden program, integrated arts education, after-school and preschool programs, a daycare center for employees children and a community health and wellness center for students and their families.