Wendy Castaneda-Leal, superintendent of the Semitropic school district in Kern County, is running for California state superintendent of public education in the June 2 primary.
Castaneda-Leal has spent more than 20 years working in education, now leading Semitropic, a small rural district located on Highway 46, about 13 miles west of Wasco.
During her career, she worked in communities across the country, many of them traditionally impoverished, where she observed inequities children and families face — not only in the quality of education they receive, but in accessing it at all…