A lousy school system for , but not for : Why should I ever be surprised that’s the tack California Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking? According to multiple reports, the Golden State’s chief executive and all-but-declared 2028 Democratic presidential candidate is moving his official residence to exclusive Marin County in the Bay Area, out of the deep-blue state’s capital of . Why, you ask? It’s not just the “rolling hills and redwood groves .
.. across the bay from San Francisco,” as poetically described Marin County.
Nope. Newsom and his wife want their kids in better schools, and what better place than “an exclusive pocket of Northern California” where the price that comes with the natural beauty keeps the exclusive schools in and the riffraff out? The couple’s four children “will stay with extended family and enroll in school for the fall semester, according to two people familiar with their plans,” Politico reported Tuesday. News of the move to the exclusive private school had begun to circulate in Sacramento in “recent days,” the outlet reported, which is why Politico sought to confirm the move with the governor’s office on Monday.
“To ensure continuity in their children’s education, the family will split their time between Sacramento and Marin heading into the coming academic year,” Newsom spokesman Izzy Gardon said. While both the governor and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, grew up in Marin County, neither is looking to purchase or rent a .