The San Marino School Board on Tuesday evening named Loren Kleinrock interim superintendent following its second closed session meeting on the subject.
“I greatly appreciate you putting your trust in me again,” Kleinrock said after the announcement was made by School Board President Shelley Ryan.
Ryan said the board agreed it was prudent to appoint an interim superintendent and allow the newly configured board choose a permanent replacement after the Nov. 6 election, when three seats will be contested.
Kleinrock’s appointment was met with a brisk round of applause from the 25 or so in attendance at Tuesday evening’s meeting.
Kleinrock has worked in the SMUSD since 1975, including 17 years as principal of San Marino High School and a previous stint as superintendent from 2011-14. Most recently, Kleinrock has served as a consultant in curriculum and instruction and also as interim assistant principal of activities, athletics and discipline at San Marino High School earlier this year.
If anyone can say they have “done it all” in the SMUSD it is Kleinrock, who has taught at both Huntington Middle School and San Marino High School, coached football, baseball and soccer, served as assistant principal and principal at SMHS, superintendent of schools and the consultant roles.
After graduating from UCLA, Kleinrock came to the SMUSD in 1975 as a Government and History teacher. He was named principal of SMHS in 1986 and served until 1992, when he went to Huntington Middle School for a three-year stint as principal. He returned to SMHS in 1995 and served another term as principal until the summer of 2011, when he was named superintendent upon Dr. Gary Woods accepting a similar position at the Beverly Hills Unified School District. Kleinrock stayed on until Cherniss was hired in 2014, but soon returned as a consultant, implementing the state’s Next Generation Science Standards and the framework for a new state History and Social Studies curriculum.
