EdWeek's Alyson Klein raises the possibility that the USDE's Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana could leave the Obama administration to head back to California -- possibly even to head LAUSD, the nation's second largest school system (Dept. of Ed.'s Melendez to Los Angeles?). Melendez may well be leaving, and may well go back to California, but it won't be to run LAUSD. According to what I've been hearing she has struggled to find her footing in Duncan's education department, pushed to the side by other much more well-established and sharp-elbowed figures. But if Melendez wants the
