Los Angeles Unified School District Watch: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Details Plan for Schools

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Los Angeles Times: L.A. Mayor Details Plan for Schools

Villaraigosa would keep an elected board — but in a lesser role — and hold the power to appoint superintendent and other top educators.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Friday outlined his most detailed plan yet for taking control of the Los Angeles schools, saying that he would keep the elected Board of Education but in a reduced role and appoint the superintendent and other top district leaders.

Villaraigosa, continuing his steady criticism of the Los Angeles Unified School District, said mayoral oversight would bring public accountability to a system lacking a “sense of urgency” or a “culture of reform.”

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s latest powergrab = Los Angeles Unitied School district. He attempted to take over the Metropolitian Water District with the Richard Katz fiasco and failed. Los Angeles parents and voters should do the same here.

“I don’t see, frankly, right now the kind of leadership in that school district that is really engaged in reforms and making the bold decisions we need to get results,” Villaraigosa said at a City Hall news conference. “What we have isn’t working, pure and simple.”

Of course, Los Angeles Unified School District has been BROKEN for years and needs to be dismantled into many separate school districts with their own elected boards.

How will Mayor MEChAS plan improve the schools – besides that Antonio gains the CONTROL to appoint the Superintendent and other school staff?

NOT AT ALL…….

The head of the Los Angeles teachers union said that any power-sharing structure could ultimately backfire in a school district in which the needs of children and billions of dollars are at stake.

“If I had a problem at a school that I needed to work on, would I go to the local school board elected person? Or would I go to the mayor?” asked A.J. Duffy, president of United Teachers Los Angeles. “As a citizen, and a consumer of public education, I’m confused already.”

A poor plan which should be rejected out of hand.

Villaraigosa is a meglamaniac desiring to exert his influence outside the power of Los Angeles City Hall. Antonio first things first……..

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