Thursday, June 9, 2011

MORE CHANGES AT LA ARTS HIGH SCHOOL: A high-profile East Coast arts education leader is expected to be named

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: MORE CHANGES AT LOS ANGELES ARTS HIGH SCHOOL: A high-profile East Coast arts education leader is expected to be named to head the flagship arts high school in downtown Los Angeles.

MORE CHANGES AT LOS ANGELES ARTS HIGH SCHOOL: A high-profile East Coast arts education leader is expected to be named to head the flagship arts high school in downtown Los Angeles.

BY HOWARD BLUME, LOS ANGELES TIMES | HTTP://LAT.MS/J4CT5Z

Kim Bruno

Kim Bruno, principal of the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City, is expected to be named to head the 2-year-old, $232-million showcase Grand Avenue campus. (www.laguardiahs.org / June 9, 2011)

June 9, 2011 - Los Angeles school district officials are expected next week to name a high-profile East Coast arts education leader to head the flagship arts high school in downtown Los Angeles, a move that substantially involved billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad, sources close to the decision told The Times.
The switch at the top is the latest in a series of controversies around the 2-year-old, $232-million showcase Grand Avenue campus.

Kim Bruno, currently head of the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City, the setting for the movie "Fame,"