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Friday, October 25, 2013

Los Angeles Schools Supt. Deasy to resign — report

Los Angeles Schools Supt. Deasy to resign — report:

Los Angeles Schools Supt. Deasy to resign — report

Los Angeles Superintendent  John Deasy  (AP)
Los Angeles Superintendent  John Deasy  (AP)
John Deasy, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District who has been at the center of a  troubled $1 billion technology initiative, has told Board of Education members that he will soon resign just weeks after getting a one-year contract extension, the  Los Angeles Times reported.
Deasy has abruptly resigned from a schools superintendency before; in 2008, he quit as chief of the Prince George’s County public school district after two years to accept a job as deputy director of the education division of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Los Angeles newspaper did not offer a reason for the latest move by Deasy, who took over the district in April 2011 and proceeded to push a series of controversial school reforms, including a new teacher assessment system that based part of a teacher’s evaluation on the standardized test scores of students and an ambitious project to give an iPad to every child in the 650,000-student district and their teachers for home use.
The iPad effort was immediately controversial; Deasy chose to fund it with school construction bonds, and it was discovered early on that nobody had allocated money to