The retirement of Rep. Anna Eshoo has touched off a race between California Democrats Sam Liccardo, Stanford professor and former mayor of San Jose; former state senator Joe Simitian, and Assemblyman Evan Low. Liccardo and Low will face off in November and educational credentials have become an issue.

Liccardo earned a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown, a JD from Harvard Law School and an MPP from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Low’s assembly campaign website says that after earning degrees from De Anza Community College and San Jose State, he “went on to graduate from the Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University,” a claim repeated in Low’s assembly biography.

Some news stories even claimed Low earned a degree from Harvard, and that caught the attention of California Globe reporter Evan Symon. As he learned, Low has only a certificate from Harvard’s Senior Executives in State and........

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