Vernon Billy | Executive Director, California School Board Association |
E. Toby Boyd | President, California Teachers Association |
Martin Brady | Executive Director, Schools Insurance Authority |
Susanna Cooper | Managing Director, Wheelhouse, UC Davis & Senior Fellow, Stuart Foundation |
Lupita Cortez Alcalá | Director, Education Policy & Outcomes, WestEd |
Xilonin Cruz-Gonzalez | Board Member, Azusa USD |
Linda Darling-Hammond | Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University |
Tatia Davenport | Executive Director, California Association of School Business Officials |
General Davie | Former Superintendent, San Juan USD |
Delaine Eastin | Former California State Superintendent of Public Instruction |
Louis Freedberg | Executive Director, EdSource |
Jeff Freitas | President, California Federation of Teachers |
Jeff Frost | Executive Director, California Suburban School Districts Association |
Martin Gonzalez | Former Executive Director, Institute for Local Government |
Dave Gordon | Superintendent, Sacramento County Office of Education |
Kevin Gordon | President, Capitol Advisors Group, LLC. |
John Gray | President, School Services of California |
Sherry Griffith | Executive Director, California State PTA |
Gary Hart | Former California Secretary of Education |
Glen Harvey | Chief Executive Officer, WestEd |
Celia Jaffe | President, California State PTA |
Camille Maben | Executive Director, First 5 California |
Julio Martinez | Executive Director, ScholarShare Investment Board |
Dean Murakami | President, Los Rios College Federation of Teachers |
Jack O’Connell | Former California State Superintendent of Public Instruction |
Laura Rodriguez | Senior Director, California Governmental Relations, The College Board |
Jay Schenirer | Council Member, City of Sacramento |
Wes Smith | Executive Director, Association of California School Administrators |
Karen Stapf-Walters | Executive Director, California County Superintendents Association |
Samantha Tran | Senior Managing Director, Education Policy, Children Now |
Ben Valdepeña | President, California School Employees Association |
California State Superintendent of Public Instruction
“Inside California Education tells the most important, captivating and unique stories directly from California’s classrooms. This award-winning public TV series has helped Californians from across the state better understand education issues and learn about innovative programs that are making a difference. Most importantly, it celebrates the hardworking people – from principals to teachers to parents to bus drivers – who dedicate their careers to providing the best possible educational experience for our children.”
Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University
"Inside California Education is an important new public television series focused on the stories, challenges, and issues of public education in California. Parents, citizens, educators and policymakers will become better informed and all will benefit from deeper views of the many complex issues facing education in California. You will find this exciting public television initiative an exceptional opportunity for us to become better informed and act in support of public education."
Former Superintendent of Public Instruction
"Inside California Education is a very exciting program which is going to be new throughout California. It's going to enable us to utilize Public Television to really dig deeper and more thoughtfully in the way we address many of the complex issues facing California today. Inside California Education is going to be exploring key fundamental education issues. I hope that you will be watching."