The California Superintendent of Schools is technically a nonpartisan position. Sarah Knopp, a socialist and member of the Green Party, is running for this position. See

http://sarah4super.org/

The incumbent is that good Democrat Jack O'Connell who proudly supports the notorious California high school exit exam, of which he is an author, which clearly discriminates against the poor as half the high schools in California do not teach what is required to pass the test and is a faulty test in that students who pass their courses sometimes still do not pass the exit exam. THIS IS WHAT THE DEMOCRATS CALL REFORM; THE REST OF US CALL IS ATTACKING THE WORKINGCLASS" RIGHT TO AN EDUCATION.

Real reform consists of top quality free public school education for everyone from age 3 through and including university; no standardized tests but instead passing the final exam in any given course (at least a C grade) being sufficient; three 15 week semesters for everyone, allowing the bright students to move faster and the slower ones to repeat only the subject in which they get less than a C rather than repeating a whole grade; raise teacher salaries to starting pay at $80,000 per year as their job requires a college degree; raise taxes on the rich (those making over $200,000 per year) known as the progressive income tax to pay for schools instead of lowering taxes on the rich which both Democrats and Republicans do; kick the military out of the schools and transfer the entire military budget to education and social services; shut down the prison system and transfer the prison budget to the education department which must have a mandate to rehabilitate everyone currently in prison with top quality free education within 5 years so that they become productive members of society if under age 50 and full pension to those over age 50. This is a bare bones agenda we need for a serious education program, which Jack O'Connell and his rotten Democratic Party does not offer; they and the Republicans offer standardized tests, which most of them could not pass.