Antwan Wilson
| Antwan Wilson | |
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| Superintendent of Oakland Unified School District | |
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In office June 2014 – February 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Gary Yee |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1972 (age 44–45) Wichita, Kansas, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Theresa |
| Children | 3 |
| Education |
Nebraska Wesleyan University (1995, BA) Friends University (2000, MA) |
Antwan Wilson (born 1972) is an American teacher and school administrator. He was appointed the Superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District in Oakland, California, in 2014, and resigned effective February 2017. On December 20, 2016, he was confirmed as Chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools in Washington, D.C.
Wilson was born in Wichita, Kansas, about 1972. He has one younger brother and one younger sister. He grew up in Wichita and in Lincoln, Nebraska, and for most of this time his mother was single. The family was very poor, and Wilson's mother had to work several jobs to support her children. He often lived in areas where drug use and drug dealing, violence, and gangs were common.
Antwan was, by his own admission, shy and somewhat insecure as a child. He attended local public schools in Wichita and Lincoln, and the family moved frequently so that the Wilson children could attend better schools. He graduated from Lincoln High School (where he was one of only a handful of minority students).
Wilson's mother broke her back in a workplace injury when he was a senior in high school. He decided to attend college at a local institution of higher learning so that he could remain at home and assist with her recovery while getting a degree. He attended Nebraska Wesleyan University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history-social science education. Wilson entered college intending to be a pre-law major, with the goal of attending law school and becoming a civil rights attorney. But in his sophomore year, he and a close friend began discussing how education plays a role in ending poverty and racism. During spring break, they traveled to Chicago, Illinois, where they observed the classroom teaching style of Linda Murray, an award-winning educator at Hyde Park Career Academy. Wilson began adding education classes, and in time switched his major.
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