It’s hard to imagine a worse outcome than former Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon heading California’s Department of Education, but, sadly, it’s a possibility.
Recently the Los Angeles County Democrat announced his candidacy for Superintendent of Public Instruction to lead efforts to improve California’s struggling K-12 education system.
But throughout his time in the Legislature Rendon demonstrated a moral corruption and an anti-education streak suggesting he does not have the judgement or character required for the job.
In 2016 Rendon refused for months to punish his buddy, then-Assemblymember Roger Hernandez, who had been placed under a restraining order from his wife over domestic violence allegations.
Rendon dismissed the concerns of the Legislative Women’s Caucus that thought it w