LONG BEACH : Board Names Cohn to Head School System
A Long Beach native and local school administrator will be the next superintendent of the Long Beach Unified School District. Carl Cohn, 46, will be the first black superintendent of the state’s fourth-largest school system.
The school board selected Cohn Thursday afternoon and will formally approve the decision at a special board meeting Monday, officials said.
Cohn is one of five area superintendents. Polytechnic High School and its feeder schools were under his jurisdiction.
Board member Bobbie Smith called Cohn “an instructional leader.” In two years as an area superintendent, Cohn oversaw the establishment of the district’s first parent center and a one-room school for the children of homeless families.
Cohn earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy at St. John’s Seminary College in Camarillo, a master’s degree in counseling at Chapman University in Orange, and a doctorate in urban education policy and planning at UCLA. His experience includes work as a guidance counselor, and as a high school and college instructor.
He replaces retiring Supt. E. Tom Giugni.
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