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L.A. Unified head quits board of Scholastic Inc.
- 02-19-2010
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By Howard Blume/Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles schools Supt. Ramon C. Cortines resigned Thursday from the board of Scholastic Inc. after increased scrutiny of his relationship with the school-district vendor that paid him compensation worth more than $150,000 last year. Scholastic provides the district's primary reading intervention program and has received more than $16 million over the last five years from contracts with the Los Angeles Unified School District. Cortines has recused himself from matters pertaining to Scholastic, but the company's substantial district business has complicated that approach. In a statement, Cortines said he stepped down "to avoid any perception of a conflict of interest as I carry out my duties as superintendent of the nation's second-largest school district and to reaffirm my commitment to our students, parents, teachers and administrators." (more...)
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