Why San Diego Unified Trustee Richard Barrera Wants to Be State Supe

Why San Diego Unified Trustee Richard Barrera Wants to Be State Supe

Richard Barrera has an almost mythic status in San Diego County. He’s San Diego Unified’s longest-serving board member and has been at the center of many of the biggest changes at the district – from its labor-friendly shift to the hiring of Superintendent Cindy Marten, who President Joe Biden later made deputy superintendent of the U.S. Department of Education. In his nearly 20 years as a trustee, Barrera’s progressive views have come to domina…