Regional superintendent gets new job in San Francisco

Richard Carranza, the northwest region superintendent for the Clark County School District, has been hired as the new deputy superintendent for the San Francisco Unified School District.

Carranza will begin his job no later than Aug. 1, according to the San Francisco school officials.

He will join San Francisco Superintendent Carlos Garcia, who is a former superintendent of the Clark County School District. Garcia resigned from that post in 2007.

Carranza currently oversees 60 schools and 58,000 students for Clark County.

His accomplishments include an increase in the number of high schools and middle schools making adequate yearly progress under the federal No Child Left Behind Act and double-digit reductions in the percentages of special education and limited-English-proficient students performing below proficiency levels in English and math. He is leaving Clark County just as the school system is consolidating its regional district system from five to four regions.

Carranza also is an accomplished mariachi musician and the former principal of Eldorado High School.

Contact reporter James Haug at jhaug@reviewjournal.com or 702-799-2922.