Frank Brogan is a former Florida public-school elementary school teacher and county school district superintendent of schools. He has served a state university president, as Florida's lieutenant governor, and as the chief of two state university systems (in Florida and Pennsylvania). As Florida's Education Commissioner, he led efforts to streamline the state's education bureaucracy, to implement testing requirements fairly, and to eliminate achievement gaps between racial and ethnic groups. A lifelong Republican who was the first person in his family to graduate from college, Brogan won four statewide elections, including two as Jeb Bush's running mate. He is a champion of educational reform with a heart.
