Morning Report: Longtime School Board Member Eyes State Post

Morning Report: Longtime School Board Member Eyes State Post

Richard Barrera has been a San Diego Unified school board member for … seemingly forever.Now the longtime school and labor leader wants to be the state’s superintendent of public instruction. Why does Barrera want this gig? What would he do in the role? And how would he respond to concerns about some troubling headlines in recent school district history?Our Jakob McWhinney covered all of the above in a question-and-answer session with Barrera.Re…