Michael Dutton
Board Member, Antelope Valley Union High School District
Michael Dutton has 35 years’ experience in education as a teacher, principal and board member. He retired in 2013 as the principal of SOAR (Students on the Academic Rise) High School in Lancaster, California, an early college high school which integrates college courses into the high school curriculum. Part of the Antelope Valley Union High School District, the school served 400 ninth- through 12th-grade students.
As a board member, Dutton was elected to the Antelope Valley Union High School District in 2013. Prior to that, he was on the Keppel Union School District board for 24 years.
Dutton has completed CSBA’s Masters in Boardsmanship and Masters in Governance programs. In 2006, he joined the faculty of the setting direction module in the Masters in Governance program.
He has a bachelor’s degree in history from California State University, Bakersfield, and a master’s degree in school management from the University of La Verne.