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Deputy Superintendent Brock Wagner Retires from TUSD Tustin Unified School District Deputy Superintendent Brock Wagner has retired from the District. Wagner has been in public education for 37 years – more than 36 years with TUSD. Wagner joined the District in 1974 as a history, English and social science teacher at Hillview High School. He also was student activities coordinator and administrative assistant at the school. In 1981, he became an assistant principal at Tustin High School and remained there for six years before moving to Foothill High School as an assistant principal. Wagner came to the District Office in 1988 as an administrator on special assignment. Over the next 14 years, he took on several administrative roles, including Administrator of Data Management, Director of Management Information Systems, Director of Business Services, Executive Director of Business Services and Assistant Superintendent of Business Services. In 2002, Mr. Wagner was appointed Deputy Superintendent, Business Services. He has served as Deputy Superintendent, Planning and Operations, for the past three years. Additionally, in 2006, Wagner also served as Interim Superintendent. Among his accomplishments, Wagner has been involved in the TUSD Measure G and L Bond modernization programs for the 20 oldest schools in the District; opening of several new state-of-the-art schools in past years; prepared and monitored two Mello Roos Taxing Districts in Tustin Ranch and West Irvine; served as a lead negotiator and financial planner for new site acquisition and construction and as a team negotiator with certificated and classified employee unions. He is the lead District official for the implementation of Senate Bill 50 (state funding for public schools construction--brought in $175 million for the District) and negotiations with the State Allocation Board, Office of Public School Instruction and California Department of Education. Wagner has also served as an associate professor in school business information systems at Cal State Fullerton, former associate professor in computer technology at Saddleback College and presenter at local, state and national education conferences. The TUSD Board of Education recognized Wagner at its Aug. 23 meeting. He was also honored by the Tustin School Management Association and Tustin Public Schools Foundation, and received proclamations from the Irvine City Council and Orange County Board of Supervisors. Irvine City Councilmember Dr. Steven Choi and Supervisor Bill Campbell represented Irvine and the county, respectively.
Additionally, the Board has asked Wagner to finish some of
his projects that are already in progress.
Supervisor
Bill Cambell presents a proclamation from the Orange County
Brock Wagner, third from left, is recognized by TUSD Board
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