Source: San Jose Unified School District

Vincent Matthews, San Jose Unified superintendent

Source: San Jose Unified School District

Vincent Matthews, San Jose Unified superintendent

San Jose Unified Superintendent Vincent Matthews will become the next land administrator of the financially troubled Inglewood Unified Schoolhouse District. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced the engagement on Thursday.

Matthews, 53, who also was the last state ambassador to oversee Oakland Unified before the state returned control of the district to Oakland's school board, will begin his new post on Oct. 19. San Jose Unified, where Matthews has been superintendent for five years, has not however selected an acting superintendent.

Matthews will be the fourth state administrator for Inglewood Unified in the three years since the Legislature loaned the district $55 million to avert bankruptcy. He volition follow Don Make, who abruptly resigned in June after approving the district'south start balanced budget since the state took it over in 2012. Though Inglewood, with a high proportion of low-income students and English learners, benefited from an infusion of state money the by two years nether the Local Control Funding Formula, its fiscal outlook remains troubled. It has lost a quarter of its students, primarily to lease schools, during the past decade. Inglewood, located nearly downtown Los Angeles, has eleven,000 students in 16 schools.

"In that location are very few leaders who have led districts nether country receivership and Dr. Matthews is 1 of them," Torlakson said in a press release. "His experience and passion are the correct fit at the correct time for the Inglewood schoolhouse community."

In San Jose, Matthews initiated Opportunity 21, a strategic plan that introduced a competition within the district for innovative school redesigns. He also negotiated a labor contract that established a landmark instructor evaluation system that gave teachers a role in evaluating their peers.

"He established an openness with the leadership of the district and fostered the idea that everyone should take a voice," said Jennifer Thomas, president of the San Jose Teachers Clan. "His leaving will be a loss."

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