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USC Rossier Alum Sought for Education Post
By Andrea Bennett on May 27, 2009 1:24 PM
- Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana
The White House has announced that President Barack Obama intends to nominate USC Rossier alumna Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana (Ph.D. ’95) for assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education in the Department of Education.
Melendez de Santa Ana is currently serving as the superintendent of schools in the Pomona Unified School District. Her efforts to improve teaching and accelerate student performance includes work with the Stupski Educational Foundation and the Annenberg Foundation.
She has written numerous articles for national education publications and is an accomplished speaker on the role of school administrators, the achievement gap, women in education, and the issues of race and class.
In 2006, she was selected by the Eli Broad Center for the Management of School Systems to participate in a 10-month executive management program to train CEOs to lead urban public school systems.
She also was selected by the Association of California School Administrators to be the state’s nominee for the 2009 American Association of School Administrators’ National Superintendent of the Year.
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