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Portis, Carrie; Garcia, Mary W. – School Administrator, 2007
In this article, the authors present Edwin Diaz, superintendent of California's Gilroy Unified School District and discuss the common challenges and strategies among those education leaders who take on--and succeed at--the role of change agent and reformer. When Edwin Diaz became superintendent of California's Gilroy Unified School District in…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Educational Improvement, Public Education, Professional Development
Nasman, Dan – School Administrator, 1993
In 1990, a new ultraconservative religious group in San Diego County began an all-out war on public education. This article describes mainstream efforts to combat curriculum challenges and "stealth" board election tactics devised by Citizens for Excellence in Education and other fundamentalist factions. Meanwhile, the new CEE-majority…
Descriptors: Activism, Boards of Education, Conservatism, Curriculum Problems