Richard Andrew Barrera
Boardmember - District D, San Diego Unified School Board
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Boardmember - District D, San Diego Unified School Board
Supports enforcing civil-rights protections consistently, maintains safe spaces for immigrant families, and supports expanded ethnic studies programs.
Calls for a Proposition 98 school funding floor, would expand universal transitional kindergarten, and supports bilingual immersion and ethnic studies.
Supports expanding community schools social services and backs attendance and wellness data supports.
Supports new taxes on the wealthy, maintains Prop 98 as a funding floor, and would reduce central office spending before classrooms.
Supports competitive educator pay and benefits statewide, maintains fully paid family healthcare benefits, and supports long-term planning for wage gains.
Supports restorative justice over exclusionary discipline and reduced school suspensions and expulsions.
Supports CTE apprenticeships and career pathways, while backing college-prep courses alongside career options.
Supports reducing duplicative reporting for districts, state data flagging structural deficits, and clear enforcement of education law.
Supports expanding school-based mental-health services, calls for more school peer counseling, and maintains strong health benefits for educators.
Supports workforce housing on school land, backs statewide programs for housing costs, and champions permanently affordable homes on public land.
Supports civil rights protections for immigrant students, opposes denying immigrant students educational access, and supports keeping ICE out of schools.
Supports treating Proposition 98 as floor.
Allocated bond funding for arts access and expanded arts and music programs.
Supports sustainable school facilities bond programs.
Led four major school bond campaigns and supports upgrading aging facilities and safety infrastructure.
Supported strong collective-bargaining rights and union copilot roles in districts; supports project labor agreements for districts.
Supporters point to deep education policy knowledge, a strong record, and clear commitment to public schools, students, and communities. They emphasize an ability to align state leaders, local districts, and educators around practical solutions, while bringing stakeholders together to improve outcomes for kids.
With nearly two decades of experience governing California’s second-largest school district, Barrera has an encyclopedic knowledge of education policy and a track record and obvious passion for helping students succeed. We believe Barrera is uniquely qualified to get diverse stakeholders rowing in the same direction to improve outcomes for kids.
Richard Barrera is a fighter for public school education and unions. He is the best candidate for our students, schools, and communities.
From a crowded field of 10 candidates vying to be state superintendent of public instruction, we endorse San Diego schools leader Richard Barrera for several reasons. We believe he is best positioned to be an effective air traffic controller within a sprawling, decentralized system, who can align Sacramento with local districts and educators around what actually works.