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- 02-22-2010
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Editorial/Los Angeles Daily News
Amazingly, despite the enormity of the task of managing the Los Angeles Unified School District, Superintendent Ramon Cortines still found time to do some moonlighting for Scholastic, Inc., one of the nation's top publishers of school textbooks. Cortines stepped down from the position Thursday after he came under fire, but only after he defended his position. It wasn't a big commitment, he said, serving on the corporation's board for the past 15 years. He put in a few hours here and there at the end of the day, or on weekends, and attended a handful of meetings in New York each year - for which he drew a handsome salary of $150,000. (more...)
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