California Sup't. of Public Instruction
Duties and Responsibilities

The Superintendent of Public Instruction is a nonpartisan officer, elected to a limit of two four-year terms at the same time and place as the Governor.

She is ex officio Director of Education and a member of the Board of Regents of the University of California. She is Executive Officer of the State Board of Education, which is the governing and policy determining body of the Department of Education, and under its direction executes the policies which have been decided upon by the board, and directs the work of all appointees and employees of the board.

She must superintend the schools of this state and prepare, have printed, and furnish to teachers and officers charged with the administration of laws relating to public schools, such blank forms and books as may be necessary in the discharge of their duties.

[Taken from: California's Legislature (1994). Republished with permission.]