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Monday, March 22, 2010

Executive Director At PALI Charter Resigns - Perdaily.com

Executive Director At PALI Charter Resigns - Perdaily.com
Executive Director At PALI Charter Resigns
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Amy Dresser-Held has announced that she is leaving Palisades Charter High Schoolin June of this year for a start up charter. She was initially given the position by a Pali Board of Directors thatincluded her father-in-law Richard Held and his business partner Jim Suhr in what remains an undisclosed conflict of interest that should have disqualified them in this selection process. Now somebody else gets to clean up the mess she left behind...

In the time that Dresser-Held has been at Pali since 2006, she has created a top-down model of failed public education that has:
1. Awarded positions in the ever increasing bloated bureaucracy that has sucked up any financial advantage Pali received from going independent charter and getting rid of LAUSD's bloated bureaucracy.