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May 22, 2009 8:59 pm US/Pacific

Oakland Hires New Schools Superintendent

OAKLAND (CBS 5 / AP) ― The Oakland school board has hired the deputy superintendent of San Francisco's schools as its new superintendent.

The board announced Friday that Tony Smith would become the district's first leader since a 2003 state takeover.

The 42-year-old Smith is tasked with restoring local control to a district that still owes the state about $80 million on an original $100 million bailout loan.

Smith lives in Oakland and said this job is the only one that could have lured him from San Francisco. Smith is a graduate of UC Berkeley, where he was captain of the football team.

Oakland has long been a struggling district with declining enrollment, low test scores and a high dropout rate. The district's current enrollment is 46,500 students.

(© 2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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