Latest Update--- Garcia passed up for San Diego job

By JAIME SARRIO • Staff Writer (Tennessean) • January 19, 2008 Terry Grier, a former Williamson County school director and current school chief in Guilford County, North Carolina, was selected today to head the San Diego Unified School District. Metro Schools chief Pedro Garcia was in the running for the job. After almost a month of deliberation, Grier was named the new superintendent at a press conference in California this afternoon. The decision comes just hours before Garcia is expected to officially step down as director of schools in Nashville.