LAUSD'S EX-SUPERINTENDENT CORTINES: ICON OF WHAT NOT TO BE - Perdaily.com

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LAUSD'S EX-SUPERINTENDENT CORTINES: ICON OF WHAT NOT TO BE

by Leonard Isenberg

(Mensaje se repite en Español)

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

In what can only be described as a highly publicized, bizarre, and rather suspicious decision, the Equality Forum that seeks to advance LGBT issues has chosen ex- Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Superintendent Ramon Cortines as an "icon" of the LGBT community. Dumbfounded by this choice, I put in a call to Equality Forum's Executive Director Malcom Lazin in Philadelphia to try and understand what was in their minds in giving ex-LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines "icon" status. I received the following rather astounding information from Mr. Lazin, who had no idea