A (Brief) History Of State Takeover Of OUSD
For years, It is no news for residents of Los Angeles’ Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) being an experimental lab for the reformers of the corporate education system in assaulting public education
It was at the peak of its trend in 2003 at a crucial point when the OUSD came under the control of the state of California.
It was handed over to Los Angeles billionaire Eli Broad who was renowned for advocating a rather more convenient business model for education. Since then the OUSD has been transferred from one Broad graduate to another.
This transfer of control to the state of California happened because of a $37 million deficit.
Broad has an institute called the Broad’s Urban Superintendents Academy in which he had an intern named Randolph Ward, a state-appointed administrator to whose hands he vested all the powers.
An election campaign was also run for the same and ideally funded by Broad who was also asked to name the state administrator.
Thereon, Ward got in residents from Board to cater to finance, labor relations and even small school incubators and further down the memory lane is history, when CONTINUE READING: A (Brief) History Of State Takeover Of OUSD
