LAUSD'S IMPERIAL SUPERINTENDENT JOHN DEASY DISES DAC (DISTRICTWIDE ADVISORY COMMITTEE) PARENTS
(For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post)
It was 19th century British historian Lord Acton who said, "All power tends to corrupt, absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely." You'd think by the 21st century we might have learned this lesson, but the purposefully failed Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), which absolutely refuses to share power with any of its shareholders- teachers, parent, or students- has continued to exemplify this quote and there doesn't seem to be any governmental entity willing to bring it to any end, even though so doing is the clear prerequisite of finally having a well run and pragmatic public school system capable of dealing with the problems LAUSD continues to cause
