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San Francisco Chronicle Endorses Gloria Romero for SPI

Chronicle Editorials Gloria Romero: A Strong Voice for Reform Tuesday, May 11, 2010 Click here to go to the San Francisco Chronicle. State Sen. Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, has repeatedly shown her willingness to take on the Capitol's powerful interests. She rankled the prison guards' union by challenging their lax disciplinary system and pushing for sentencing reform. She challenged the law enforcement establishment in pushing for public disclosure of disciplinary records. And as chair of the Education Committee, Romero has incurred the wrath of teachers' unions by pushing for the principles of accountability and innovation demanded in President Obama's "Race to the Top" program. Her main opponents for the state superintendent of public instruction are Assemblyman Tom Torlakson, D-An...

The Sacramento Bee Endorses Romero for SPI

Sacramento Bee, Friday, Apr. 30, 2010 - 12:00 am | Page 14A The hotly contested primary for the superintendent of public instruction is shaping up as a battle for the soul of the Democratic Party on public education. On one side is the traditional educational establishment of teachers' unions and organizations representing administrators and school boards. They have focused primarily on funding issues to maintain the status quo. On the other side is a new coalition of parents, civil rights groups and philanthropists. It has been given a big boost by the election of President Barack Obama, who has taken on the establishment. Their view is that children get only one shot at an education and that too many schools have stagnated for too long. The race featur...

The Sacramento Bee Endorses Romero for SPI

Editorial: Students without boundaries

State's District of Choice transfer program deserves renewal by Legislature.

A relatively little-used option permitting students to enroll in public schools outside the district in which they live expires July 1. Lawmakers should renew the District of Choice program, one of the few choices that California's rigid public schools allow parents in deciding where their children will attend classes.

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Concession Statement from Gloria Romero

“The victors in the race for Superintendent of Public Instruction were two different wings of the same status-quo education establishment: ACSA’s interests for administrators prevailed alongside CTA’s interests for teachers. The interests of the reform community, on behalf of parents and kids, lost.

I am deeply saddened by the outcome of this race, which had signaled so much hope for the possibility of true education reform in California and an overdue shakeup of an education morass which remains complacent with failure.

While deeply disappointed, I am proud of this campaign’s message of hope and reform in education. I am thankful to all those who supported my efforts to put children’s interests above those of any others.”