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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Schooling in the Ownership Society: As school opens in L.A....

Schooling in the Ownership Society: As school opens in L.A....:

As school opens in L.A....

Supt. John Deasy's back-to-school speech gets cool reception.
Administrators also have expressed worries about Deasy's strong ties to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa — a staunch critic of some district labor groups — and to charter-school supporters as well as to philanthropists and donors critical of public school performance. -- Howard Blume, L.A. Times
Is the Man from Gates looking over his shoulder at the imported-teacher scandal he helped create before he bailed from P.G. County? Deasy and school officials there, turned to hiring from abroad. Since 2005, Prince