June 22, 2010 | 8:24 am
Los Angeles Unified School District officials are poised to bring in a senior administrator from the influential Gates Foundation to help run the nation’s second-largest school system, a senior district official confirmed. The choice of John Deasy, scheduled for a vote Tuesday by the district's Board of Education, already has resulted in a complication. The school board’s vice president, Yolie Flores, recently accepted a job funded by the foundation and, therefore, won’t be voting on Deasy’s hiring.
Deasy is being considered for deputy superintendent in the LAUSD. That job’s previous holder was Ramon C. Cortines who, within a year, moved up to the top job in December 2008. Since then, Cortines, 77, has worked without a senior deputy, partly as an acknowledgment of the district’s ongoing budget woes.
Deasy’s hiring is likely to launch speculation that he could succeed Cortines, who is not expected to stay more than another two years.
In recent months, the aide most closely resembling a top deputy has been Matt Hill, who reports to Cortines on some of the district’s central and most sensitive reform efforts. Hill’s salary is privately funded by the locally based Broad Foundation. And some of Hill’s lieutenants are funded by the private Wasserman Foundation, also based locally.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/06/la-school-system-poised-to-hire-senior-gates-foundation-official.htmlThe Gates Foundation is funding efforts in those states to develop teacher-evaluation systems that are at least partly based on student test scores. A consortium of five local charter-school management organizations received a $60-million grant for that purpose in November. Only in L.A. did the money go to independently managed charter schools rather than the school district.
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