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Phillip Perez

Superintendent, Little Lake City School District
1988, Doctorate, Curriculum and Study of Schooling, UCLA
1981, Master of Arts, Educational Administration, ����ɫ��ҹ
1981, ����ɫ��ҹAdministrative Services Credential, ����ɫ��ҹ
1980, ����ɫ��ҹBilingual Specialist Teaching Credential, ����ɫ��ҹ
1976, Bachelor of Arts, English Literature, ����ɫ��ҹ
1976 ����ɫ��ҹMultiple Subjects Teaching Credential, ����ɫ��ҹ

Hailed as an effective leader and a strategic thinker who embraces purposeful school reform, Phillip Pérez has led the Little Lake City School District — the school district he attended as a child — since being appointed superintendent of that 4,600-student school district in 2001.  Previously, Pérez served as deputy superintendent, as director of instructional services (K-6), and as director of curriculum (K-6) for the Riverside Unified School District, and prior to that, he worked as both a school principal and a classroom teacher. 

During Pérez’s tenure as principal, Revere Elementary School was named a “����ɫ��ҹDistinguished School” in recognition of its success in narrowing achievement gaps.  In 1988, Pérez received the ����ɫ��ҹDepartment of Education’s national Milken Educator Award, and in 1998, he was honored as one of the Inland Empire’s “Most Influential Latinos.” 

He is the recipient of the Association of ����ɫ��ҹSchool Administrators (ACSA) Distinguished Service Award and was the ACSA Region XV Superintendent of the Year Nominee in 2014.  A proud alumnus of ����ɫ��ҹ, Pérez has been an annual fund donor since 2005 and a collaborator with the College of Education for more than a decade; he also serves on the ����ɫ��ҹ Education Advisory Committee. 

Pérez and his wife of 35 years, Edna, a ����ɫ��ҹ alumna and retired elementary school teacher, have three daughters.  In addition to spending time with his family — which now includes his first grandchild, born in December 2014 — Pérez enjoys golfing, biking, exercising, reading, and traveling.