Student trustee finishes term
San Diego Unified School District welcomed two new student trustees who will represent more than 90,000 students in district governance. They were sworn in on June 24.
Alina Nguyen of Hoover High and Ashley Ordaz of University City High will serve one-year terms. They replace outgoing trustees Joseph Cruz of Morse High and Quinton Baldis of Scripps Ranch High.
The board recognized the contributions of the outgoing student trustees during the June 24 ceremony.
Board President Cody Petterson told Cruz and Baldis that they “brought us back to the fundamental experience of what it is to be a student and for us it really did bring home how important it is to always keep the student first and foremost in our minds.”
Superintendent Fabiola Bagula, Ph.D., praised the departing trustees for “continuously elevating the con-
versation reminding us how important it is to center student voice and student needs in every single thing you do.”
Baldis said he was “deeply humbled and honored to represent the almost 95,000 students of the San Diego Unified School District.”
Student trustees have preferential voting rights, meaning their votes are recorded in meeting minutes but do not count toward the final numerical outcome of board decisions.
They receive the same $1,736 monthly compensation as adult board members and vote on agenda items alongside the seven-member board.