FRESNO -  Cesar Granda, the President of the Central Unified School District Board of Trustees, announced the appointment of  Andrew G. Alvarado as the district’s new superintendent effective July 1, 2018.  The Central Unified Board of Trustees enlisted Jack Kelejian, Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources, to advertise and conduct a statewide search for the new superintendent. The Board interviewed several candidates and determined Mr. Alvarado would fit the needs of the students and community of Central Unified.

Mr. Alvarado has been the superintendent of the Golden Valley Unified School District in Madera County for the past seven years and prior to that, served as assistant superintendent, high school principal and high school vice principal prior to his promotion to the District Office. During Mr. Alvarado’s tenure as assistant superintendent, he guided the District in the area of Educational Services, specifically, curriculum, instruction and assessment, all while focusing on teaching, learning and student achievement. As a result of Mr. Alvarado’s educational leadership, the District has experienced tremendous gains in all of these areas through his direct involvement with staff and students.   

MADERA – Usually when you hear of incidents in public schools involving alcohol it is involving an under-aged student that makes a stupid choice. Madera Police are currently investigating an incident at Madera Unified’s Parkwood Elementary School in which the ‘stupid choices’ were made by the administrators who had been put in charge of the students.

Four administrators from three local elementary schools are now looking for jobs and one administrator is being reassigned back to the classroom following a World Cup Soccer party held on Parkwood Elementary School’s campus where alcohol flowed freely between administrators from Parkwood, Sierra Vista and Caesar Chavez Elementary schools. Those are the facts of the case; the mystery is why five Madera Unified administrators would risk their careers?