Dean of State Schools Chiefs Still Charming Them in N.D.
But Wayne G. Sanstead Faces Heap of Resistance From Educator Groups
Wayne G. Sanstead is on a mission on this windy April morning here, as he makes his way through the Capitol to check on the education bills being debated late in the legislative session.
Such jaunts, however urgent, are rarely direct and uninterrupted for North Dakota’s gregarious superintendent of public instruction. On his way to the House, he waves to acquaintances, shakes hands with longtime legislators, and chats casually with colleagues and other state employees.
Mr. Sanstead, currently the nation’s longest-serving state schools chief, has become a familiar figure outside the halls of state government as well. At restaurants and even gas stations around the state he is often greeted earnestly by passersby. At school events, students tend to huddle close to him with a...
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