Alan Bersin

Alan Bersin

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name = Alan Bersin


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Alan Bersin is a former Secretary of Education for California, as well as a former superintendent of San Diego City Schools, past federal Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) and United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, and former Attorney General’s Southwest Border Representative, or "Border Czar." He currently serves as the chair of the executive committee of the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority. [cite web | author= San Diego County Regional Airport Authority| year=| title= Board Members| url=http://www.san.org/Airport_Authority/board_management.asp| work= | accessdate=January 1| accessyear=2007]

Mr. Bersin was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended public schools in New York City.

He received an A.B. in government from Harvard, and then attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. In 1974, he obtained a J.D. degree from Yale Law School.

Mr. Bersin served as the Attorney General’s Southwest Border Representative, and coordinated law enforcement on the border between the U.S. and Mexico.

His appointment as Superintendent of Public Education in San Diego City Schools put him in control of the eighth largest urban school district in the U.S. [cite web | author= | year= | title=Education Secretary: Alan Bersin| url=http://www.ose.ca.gov/bersinbio.dwt | work= | accessdate=January 1| accessyear=2007]

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed him to a position as California's Education Secretary. [cite web | author= John Marelius, Maureen Magee, and Gordon Smith
year=| title= Bersin to be state education secretary
url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050430/news_1n30bersin.html| accessdate=January 1| accessyear=2007
]

Bersin is the U.S. Chair of a recently launched Task Force on the U.S.-Mexico border region, organized by the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations [cite web | title=Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI) | url=http://www.consejomexicano.org/index.php?english] (COMEXI) and the Pacific Council on International Policy [cite web | title=Pacific Council on International Policy | url=http://www.pacificcouncil.org/index.aspx] .

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