Background
He was born August 13, 1943, in San Diego, California, and graduated from Santa Barbara High School.
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Gary Hart
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He entered Stanford University on a football scholarship, spent six months based in Florence under Stanford"s auspices, and graduated in History in 1965.
Career
He earned an Master of Arts from Harvard School of Education the next year. Hart served in both houses of the Legislature for a total of 20 years, having chaired the Senate Education Committee from 1983 until his retirement in 1994. In 1988, he had made another run for Congress but narrowly lost to Republican incumbent Bob Lagomarsino.
After his retirement from the Legislature, he founded the California State University Institute for Education Reform, located on the Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union) Sacramento campus.
Hart also served as the California Secretary of Education for Governor Gray Davis from January 1999 through March 2000. His principal responsibility as Secretary for Education was helping craft and pass the Governor"s 1999 education reform program
Most recently, he has created and taught in the Program in America and California Explorations (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe), an innovative core humanities initiative at Kennedy High School in Sacramento.
Achievements
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Hart"s State Senate district included portions of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Ventura, and Los Angeles Counties. A former high school teacher and a Democrat, Hart authored a wide range of legislation on education topics, including performance-based student testing, school restructuring, charter schools, and latch key child care programs. He was voted most ethical California legislator by his peers and as such appeared on the cover of California Journal.
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