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Hollenbeck Middle School

"That transition from middle school to high school is crucial," said state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson.

Jane Dee Hull

This election was particularly significant because it was the first time in the history of the United States that all five of the top elected executive offices in one state were held by women: Hull; Betsey Bayless, secretary of state; Janet Napolitano, attorney general; Carol Springer, treasurer; and Lisa Graham Keegan, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Ossian B. Hart

He appointed Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs as Florida's first African American Superintendent of Public Instruction.


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Belgrade, Nebraska

Palmer was the birthplace of Oregon Republican politician Norma Paulus, who served two terms each as Oregon Secretary of State and as Superintendent of Public Instruction.

California Department of Education

The current Superintendent of Public Instruction is Tom Torlakson.

Floyd T. Christian

Christian was appointed state Superintendent of Public Instruction, by Governor W. Haydon Burns in 1965 and served until 1973.

Greenfield, California

On February 27, 2008, Greenfield Elementary was placed under "Intensive" help due to the school's failure to raise their Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Results under the No Child Left Behind Act for the past five years by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Superintendent of Public Instruction, Jack O'Connell.

Horne v. Flores

The case is styled after the plaintiff, Miriam Flores, one of the parents involved in the case, and the defendant, Thomas Horne, the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction.

John Huppenthal

Huppenthal was elected Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction in the 2010 state election.

John Remsburg

He was a teacher for 15 years, a superintendent of public instruction in Atchison County, Kansas for four years, then a writer and lecturer in support of free thought, his lectures being translated into German, French, Bohemian, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Bengali and Singalese.

Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation

Denise Juneau, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction for Montana

North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction

The current Superintendent of Public Instruction is June Atkinson.

The three Rs

Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Terry Bergeson, identified the new 3 Rs from Robert Carkhuff's 3 Rs as Relating, Representing and Reasoning.

Transitional kindergarten

As this is only a proposal, and the Kindergarten Readiness Act is law, the California Department of Education and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson and child advocates across the state have called on school districts to move forward with current law and continue plans to implement transitional kindergarten.