The Los Angeles Unified School District school board is not unified at all. The charter industry managed to capture a slim majority in the last school board elections (in the most expensive local school board election in history), and it runs the board 4-3. Unfortunately for the charter industry, the man that was supposed to be president of the board was Ref Rodriguez, who faces multiple felony charges and is supposed to go on trial for various financial crimes. Ref stepped down as president but refuses to leave the board. The board is rushing to hire a new superintendent while Ref is still there. If he stepped aside, the board would be forced to negotiate with the other three members of the board.
John Rogers and Donald Cohen urge the board not to name a new superintendent until it can forge a bipartisan consensus.
That sounds like a reasonable course of action, but if the board took that advice, it wouldn’t be able to name an unalloyed charter advocate to run the schools.
There are many names in play. I have heard about a dozen names, some of whom currently run other school districts. The last name I heard was not an educator but Austin Buetner, who was publisher of the Los Angeles Times before he was fired. The Guardian says he was fired because he was in cahoots with Eli Broad, the master puppeteer of privatization.
I have also heard the names of superintendents who are known for closing public schools (as per Broad’s directions) and replacing them with privately managed charter schools.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
True educators need not apply. These school boards only want puppet’s, educating correctly has stopped being a priority for America thanks to the Broad,Gates Foundations, the right wing, politicians researchers and anyone else making money off of public education. Teaching is no longer the profession that many individuals want to enter. No respect from anyone for the hard work that a true teacher does day in and day out. Technology wants everything to be on line so there is no accountability but a great deal of money changing hands and not for the good of the students.
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and all of this tech invasion done in the public name of PHILANTHROPY.
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“Teaching is no longer the profession that many individuals want to enter. No respect from anyone for the hard work that a true teacher does day in and day out. ”
I guess we put in 60+ hours/week because we were/are too slow to complete the work “efficiently.”
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The public and I mean parents and concerned citizens better start demanding that real educators are in charge not all of these corporate, political hacks and that is what they are. Just see what is going on with Seattle, another hack is coming in and more years of failure await the students.. We are allowing these fools to destroy public education and all of our futures.
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Who is coming to Seattle? I have not heard that a newsuperintendent was chosen.
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You are right, Diane; no one has been chosen. I think we have two great finalists (and one ed reformer who has no chance).
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The answer is simple, the deformers absolutely love and depend on The Lemon Dance as performed by their failed, incompetent faux leaders. They want everyone to confuse a change in leadership with a change in direction. Liars one and all.
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No superintendent has ever been chosen to lead LAUSD on such a hurried timeline. And the last time we had a superintendent selected with such lack of transparency as this one, the result was a destructive Broad superintendent recommended by heinous Broad-funded Mayor Villaraigosa, an iPad scandal, a student data tracking system debacle (the MiSiS crisis), a computer program for teacher evaluations, and on and on.
On May 7, Broad supported Board Member Ref Rodriguez goes to court to defend himself on multiple counts of felonies and misdemeanors. He should not be voting. The Board trying to sneak this vote through before he goes on trial will result in more crises, debacles, possible bankruptcy, Broad’s plan to privatize half the District, and I think plenty of further litigation against Board members. They never learn, so they need to be pressured.
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How many hundreds of millions did LAUSD lose in the iPad scandal? Apple was dumping obsolete iPads loaded with Pearson curriculum
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At least it was halted by internal investigation and then FBI raid, before we lost over a billion and a half.
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