Dive Brief:

• Richard Crandall, Wyoming's governor-appointed education chief, will return home to Arizona now that Cindy Hill has resumed her job as state superintendent.  
• Crandall has only nice things to say about Gov. Matt Mead, who appointed him to the position last summer after the state legislature created a law stripping Hill of her responsibilities.  
• After the state Supreme Court decided the law was unconstitutional and Hill returned to her position, Crandall resigned. He is a former Arizona senator but does not plan to return to politics, preferring instead to run his family companies and possibly teach.  

Dive Insight:

It is not surprising that Crandall will be returning home, as he doesn't have much to do in Wyoming now that Hill has returned to her position.  

While Crandall is diplomatic in his exit, he shows no remorse for his position, which essentially kicked Hill out.  Instead, Crandall implies that if they had left Hill with just a little bit of power, then he would still have his job. "And what happened is the Legislature kind of overreached a little too far. They took everything from her. They were just so angry with her," he told AZ Central.

According to Crandall, the overreaching was deemed unconstitutional by the state Supreme Court because it took an elected official and left her with zero power. "What the Supreme Court kind of said was, 'Well if you left some stuff with her maybe we could find a way.' But three to two they said no, 'what are you going to do next, take all the Secretary of State's power?' " Crandall said.