{"id":317073,"date":"2026-05-15T11:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/317073\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:07:08","slug":"former-kentucky-education-commissioner-to-leave-california-superintendent-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/317073\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Kentucky education commissioner to leave California superintendent job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) &#8211; A former Kentucky education commissioner is out of a superintendent job he took in California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A joint statement from the Governing Board of the Laguna Beach Unified School District and Jason Glass said Glass and the district has reached a mutual agreement to conclude his service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Glass will be superintendent until the end of May, and the district thanked him for his service and dedication to the students, staff and families of the district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cDr. Glass expresses gratitude for the opportunity to serve this exceptional community and wishes the District continued success,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Serving as the Commonwealth\u2019s education commissioner for three years, Glass had resigned from the position in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Glass had cited<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkyt.com\/2023\/08\/01\/glass-discusses-why-he-is-stepping-down-kentucky-education-commissioner\/?outputType=amp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wkyt.com\/2023\/08\/01\/glass-discusses-why-he-is-stepping-down-kentucky-education-commissioner\/?outputType=amp\"> anti-LGBTQ laws and changes to future commissioner of education confirmation procedures as reasons for his departure<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wkyt.com\/page\/wkyt-apps-for-ios-and-android-devices\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"WKYT Streaming Apps\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MEPHTWNVMREWLEQQWWFJM27ZMA.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WKYT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) &#8211; A former Kentucky education commissioner is out of a superintendent job he took in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8205,7,9,8,132506,132501,7659,28919,132502,544,10,132505,85810,132504,132503,4265,27854],"class_list":["post-317073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-cali","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-dr-glass","tag-education-commissioner","tag-glass","tag-governing-board","tag-jason-glass","tag-kentucky","tag-laguna-beach","tag-laguna-beach-unified-school-district","tag-resign","tag-resigned","tag-resigning","tag-school","tag-superintendent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}