The Road In Front Of The Schoolbus
Written by redqueeninla in LAUSD
What’s ahead through the windshield of the 2014 LAUSD school bus?
Certainly one must wonder front and center about the tenure of superintendent John Deasy. He’s threatened to quit at least twice now, first if/when now-board president Vladovic were to be chosen for that role from among his colleagues, and following on the heels of this hollow threat came a flurry of feints, further threats and countermoves immediately prior to his ultimate job contract extension. Deasy’s relationship with his political board of bosses seems balky at best. The citizens’ Bond Oversight Committee has given him as close to a vote of no-confidence as one could get shy of a roll-call in their most recent meeting. Deasy’s ipad rollout has unfurled as an administrative disaster from questionable contracts to dubious legalities surrounding funding to dicey logistics and horrifying cost overruns. As the administrative leader of this procedural morass, one does have to wonder when the buck will stop in front of him and level its antlers at the problem. Incompetence requires accountability. That is, after all, the rallying cry of the public education privatization movement so disingenuously branded “Education Reform”. John Deasy is one of the few generals left standing in this assaultlaunched by corporate foundations on the public commons.
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