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A Crash Course for LAUSD's New Superintendent John Deasy - Perdaily.com

A Crash Course for LAUSD's New Superintendent John Deasy - Perdaily.com

A Crash Course for LAUSD's New Superintendent John Deasy

(Mensaje se repite en Español)

(For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post)

LAUSD's new Superintendent John Deasy spoke with members of NewTLA and other LAUSD teachers at the Santee Learning Center today after school. What impressed me the most was when he acknowledged the fact that he, "Didn't have the answer to many of LAUSD's problems."

While he is clearly an intelligent man who wants to tap into and facilitate the talents of all LAUSD employees, he still doesn't realize that the culture of LAUSD is a top-down bureaucracy that has steadfastly fought any notion of