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Board of Education appoints new superintendent

By Ana Tintocalis / Education Reporter,  KPBS Public Broadcasting
Published June 28, 2006 at 9:00 PM PDT
This story was published more than 18 years ago.

San Diego County Board of Education appointed a new school superintendent today. Veteran education Randolph Ward accepted the three-year position at the Office of Education. KPBS Reporter Ana Tintocal

San Diego County Board of Education appointed a new school superintendent today. Veteran education Randolph Ward accepted the three-year position at the Office of Education. KPBS Reporter Ana Tintocalis has more.

County educators congratulated Randolph Ward after he announced the good news. Ward's most recent jobs have been turning around the Oakland and Compton Unified School Districts. He says San Diego County's school districts are better off than most urban school districts, but there is still plenty of work ahead.

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Ward: "Its always challenging to come into a high functioning institution and look for ways to make it higher functioning. That is a piece of it. The other piece is following Rudy Castruita, and certainly to follow that act is a tough one."

Castruita is retiring as the county school superintendent after 12 years. Ward begins in August. He'll be getting paid $265,000 his first year. He will oversee 42 school districts and manage a $400 million budget. Ana Tintocalis, KPBS News.

Ana Tintocalis
Ana Tintocalis was a member of the KPBS radio news team from 2001 to 2011. She first served as a as a producer for "These Days" (now "Midday Edition") and then later as the station's education reporter. After graduating from California State University, Long Beach with a journalism degree, Ana began working as a field reporter and anchor at KLON Radio 88.1 FM in Long Beach, covering breaking news in Orange and Los Angeles counties. During that time she also freelanced for other print and broadcast news organizations, such as Metro Networks, the Associated Press, and Santa Clarita Our Times. In 2001, Ana traveled for more than three months in Cuba where she produced a radio series focusing on the street music in Havana. Upon returning from her journey, Ana freelanced as a reporter covering court cases for the Antelope Valley Press, a newspaper based in Palmdale, California.
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