About

About

Rolland B

Rolland B brings a deep understanding of the burdens of school board service, having served for eight years as an at-large member of the Board of Education of Rowland Unified School District – with close to 20,000 K-12 students at that time, housed in three high schools, three intermediate schools, fifteen elementary schools, and an adult school – covering all of Rowland Heights and portions of the cities of Walnut, West Covina, and La Puente, in Los Angeles County, California.

Rolland has a profound appreciation for the immense challenges confronting public K-12 education, having gained real-world experience in the field while holding a variety of roles, including:

• Interim Superintendent of Schools – six months, K-8 school district.
• Assistant Superintendent, Business Services – nine years, K-8 school district.
• Chief Operations Officer / Chief Business Official – two years, unified school district.

• CPA-Advisor – twenty years, conducted annual financial and compliance audits of dozens of school districts, county offices of education, and other local educational agencies, in seven California counties.

Rolland ‘has been there, done that’ and so much more. Aside from seeing the best and the worst of school district administration and school board governance, he has personally experienced the horrors of a school board’s micromanagement.

On the strength of the varied professional roles he has played and the wealth of insights he has gained, Rolland B is uniquely qualified to bring value to the table.

Rolland B was a lecturer on K-12 school finance and auditing subjects for two seasons for the old ACSA Business Managers Academy in Northern and Southern California. At one time, he was on the adjunct faculty at the Graduate School of Education, California State University – Los Angeles, where he handled a class on school finance.

Along with his Master of Science degree in School Business Administration from Pepperdine University, Rolland earned, decades ago, a master’s degree in activism and protest demonstrations on the streets of Manila against the then-burgeoning dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. Finally, Rolland is embarrassed to admit, he is a failed Juris Doctor degree aspirant, having twice attended and then quit evening law school.

With finality, he quit law school for the second and last time after concluding that all of Southern California would NOT sink into the depths of the Pacific Ocean if the name Rolland B did not ever appear on the roster of the California bar.

At peace both times he quit law school, Rolland found his feet remained firmly planted on K-12 education grounds.