Thank you for your service to our local education communities, Jeff, particularly your leadership in Los Altos School District. Good luck and best wishes on your retirement.

Mazel Tov to Mr. Baier! He was my favorite teacher at Graham Middle School back in the day and it is so great that he went on to do such great things.

LASD has been so fortunate to have had such an excellent and committed educator and community member as superintendent of its schools: Jeff Baier. Thanks very much, Jeff, for successfully shepherding us through so many tough circumstances! Best wishes to you and your family for a great next chapter!

It was very interesting to see him lead the LASD through 'so many turns and blind alleys' to finally put together (with the City of Mountain View planning director & council) an 'apparent' way to get a LASD build facility for Mountain View clients of the LASD.

And, as a former STEM teacher and R&D engineer, the LASD programs in Math and Science under his watch vastly 'out innovated' the neighborhood competition! I am glad to read that he himself thinks that was one of his best works as an education administrator.

BTW - the teacher retention data for LASD, as the state records it (mean tenure in years), shows that LASD increased its value back up to 10 years. That is a metric - showing how well it's 'most valuable employees' like to work there (MVWSD's is 8 yr & static / the county average is 10 years and static).

Web Link (Staff/demographics)

Thanks for leaving the next administration still with the BCS issue, unresolved. Would have loved the MVV to interview Jeff and ask him what he would advise his successor to do.