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SBE Member Assignments

List of California State Board of Education member assignments in various committees and liaison assignments.

Member Assignments in the Member Committees and Member Liaison Assignments -- Commissions & Committees and Functional Areas – December 2022.

Member Committees

Screening Committee, State Board of Education

(required, SBE Bylaws, Art. VI, Sec. 1)

  • Cynthia Glover Woods, Chair
  • Francisco Escobedo
  • Brenda Lewis

Member Liaison Assignments

(Commissions and Committees)

Advisory Commission on Charter Schools (ACCS)

(EC 33031 and 47634.2(b)(1))

  • Cynthia Glover Woods
  • Sharon Olken

Advisory Commission on Special Education (ACSE)

(EC 33590)

  • Alison Yoshimoto-Towery

California Association of Student Councils (CASC)

(Student Advisory Board on Education)

  • Anya Ayyappan (through July 31, 2024)
  • James J. McQuillen

California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC)

(required, SBE Bylaws, Art.XII, Sec. 1 (d))

  • Haydee Rodriguez

California Practitioners Advisory Group (CPAG)

  • Cynthia Glover Woods

Instructional Quality Commission

(EC 33530)

  • Linda Darling-Hammond - Mathematics
  • Cynthia Glover Woods - General
  • Brenda Lewis - General

California Workforce Pathways Joint Advisory Committee

(EC 12053)

  • James J. McQuillen, Chair
  • Francisco Escobedo
  • Haydee Rodriguez

Trustees of the California State Summer School for the Arts

(EC 8952.5)

  • Kim Pattillo Brownson

Concurrence Commission - CA Subject Matter Projects

(EC 99200(d))

  • Brenda Lewis

WestEd

(SBE Bylaws reference WestEd’s Joint Powers Agreement)

  • Francisco Escobedo

Member Liaison Assignments

(Functional Areas)

Assessment

(discretionary, SBE Bylaws, Art. VI, Sec. 2)

  • Linda Darling-Hammond
  • Gabriela Orozco Gonzalez

Career Technical Education

  • James J. McQuillen
  • Haydee Rodriguez

Civic Learning

  • Alison Yoshimoto-Towery

Community Schools

  • Linda Darling-Hammond
  • Alison Yoshimoto-Towery

District Reorganization

  • Francisco Escobedo

Early Education

  • Kim Pattillo Brownson

English Learners

  • Francisco Escobedo
  • Alison Yoshimoto-Towery

Environmental Literacy

  • Sharon Olken

Federal

  • Linda Darling-Hammond
  • Francisco Escobedo

School Facilities

  • Kim Pattillo Brownson

Waivers

(discretionary, SBE Bylaws, Art. VI, Sec. 2)

  • Brenda Lewis

Local Control Funding Formula/ Accountability

(EC 42238.07, EC 52064, EC 52064.5)

  • Linda Darling-Hammond
  • Cynthia Glover Woods

California Collaborative for Educational Excellence (CCEE)

(EC 52074)

  • Cynthia Glover Woods
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Last Reviewed: Friday, October 06, 2023
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