#GAReads | When the man behind the curtain is female: More women now hold key education policymaker jobs

California State Senator Connie Leyvahoto. Photo credit: California Air Resources Board from Sacramento, United States [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

“When the man behind the curtain is female: More women now hold key education policymaker jobs”:

Across the country, the vast majority of the education workforce is female. Seventy-seven percent of teachers are women, but only 31 percent of district chiefs are, according to an April 2019 report by Chiefs for Change, a bipartisan nonprofit. The report’s authors called on “school systems, school boards, mayors and governors nationwide to make urgent changes to shift the gender balance at the very top levels of education leadership.”

Across the nation, that change may be on the way, and in California it already includes legislative staffers like Kelley, Padilla Feusahrens and Lieberman.

Read Gail Cornwall’s full article at The Hechinger Report here…