Superintendent

I spent, uh, Friday there at the Moms for Liberty conference.

I met the Superintendent of Oklahoma Schools, Ryan Walters.

He's got some big initiatives and some big thoughts about busting teachers unions and returning school to the control of parents.

He's done a lot of that in the great state of Oklahoma.

As the Superintendent of Public Schools, he's got some more ideas and, uh, he's always a fun guy to have on the show.

That is our Thursday show, uh, here on, uh, it's hard to believe, uh, s- October...

Are you ready for this? It's October 15th already.

We're down here in Dallas, Texas, at the Moms for Liberty convention.

The candidate for State Treasurer, the Honorable W. H. Vassar, was a successful businessman who lived in the northern part of the state, while the candidate for Attorney General, the Honorable Joshua S. Morris, was a brilliant member of the bar who lived in the southern part of the state.

The other three, the candidates for Lieutenant Governor, State Auditor, and Superintendent of Education, were Northern men who had settled in the state after the war, called by the Democrats Carpetbaggers.

But they were admitted to be clean and good men who had lived in the state long enough to become fully identified with its industrial and business interests.

H. C.

Powers, the candidate for Lieutenant Governor, and H. Musgrove, the candidate for Auditor of Public Accounts, were successful cotton planters from Noxabee and Clark counties, respectively, while H. R.

Peace, the candidate for State Superintendent of Education, had been identified with educational work ever since he came to the state.

It could not be denied that it was a strong and able ticket, one that the Democrats would find it very difficult to defeat.

In desperation, the Democratic Party had nominated as their candidate for Governor a brother-in-law of President Grant's, Judge Lewis Dent, in the hope that the President would throw the weight of his influence and the active support of his administration on the side of his relative, as against the candidate of his own party, especially in view of the fact that Dent had been nominated not as a Democrat, but as an Independent Republican, his candidacy simply having been endorsed by the Democratic organization.

Biology didn't even exist as a profession then.

Well, Wallace, through a partnership with the State Superintendent of Education, had one day out of every school year in grade schools designated as Bird Day.

Now, why'd he do that? 'Cause the only thing left was songbirds and crows and stuff.

Oh, my goodness.

We're joined today by Victor Wakefield.

He's the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the Nevada Department of Education.

Victor, how are you?

I'm well.

Right

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Superintendent Ebert.

Um, you have a governor, also, um, legislative leaders deeply committed to improving education.

I remember being very frustrated how long it took to get the roadmap together, but we have one, and I'm happy for you all to just take it and use it in your own communities.

And we basically, so we brought Health and Human Services in, we brought the Superintendent of Education in, we brought Natural Resources, CalEPA, we brought all these different agencies in to basically try to Reduce and obviously CDFA and the Department of Food and Agriculture, but basically to try to reduce red tape and create Focus and shared goals around health around climate and also around the economy and and It was some of my colleagues, even my colleague who was running California Volunteers at the time, they all shared that it was the first time we'd all come together with such a clear focus and objective.

And I think it's one of the reasons we were so successful out of the gate.

Yeah, when all those agencies can work together and collaborate, that's what's going to be effective.

Read before the Society, February 3, 1875, by John D.

Pierce, First Superintendent of Public Instruction.

It is sometimes useful to review the past to see what has been done.

It is so in every department of life.

The Governor expressed a wish to see me on the subject, as we were then wholly unacquainted.

I accordingly visited Detroit and had an interview with the Governor about the 20th of July.

After discussing the matter at some length, the result was that on the 26th of the same month, in 1836, I was nominated and unanimously confirmed as Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State.

I was therefore the first that ever held the office in this country under a State Constitution.