John Deasy earns mostly high marks as the likely new L.A. schools superintendent

01-10-2011

By Howard Blume/Los Angeles Times

The selection of John Deasy to lead the nation's second-largest school system, expected Tuesday, would give the Board of Education a leader who is eager to make sweeping changes and who has earned the respect of disparate and often warring forces in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Taking on some of the thorniest issues in the system as top deputy to Supt. Ramon C. Cortines, Deasy has worked productively with union leaders, key community activists, the mayor's office and charter school operators. U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan weighed in last week, saying Deasy "has been a thoughtful, aggressive leader in public education." "L.A. is lucky to have him," Duncan said. After joining the school district in August, Deasy carved out a role heading a controversial effort to revamp teacher evaluations to include the use of student test score data, a move vigorously opposed by the teachers union. He also oversaw the negotiation of a tentative legal settlement that would modify the last-hired, first-fired method of laying off instructors during budget crises. (more…)

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