L.A.U.S.D. Superintendent Deasy to stay through 2016



Superintendent John Deasy at L.A. Board of Education meeting on October 29, 2013.  Photo credit:  Brianna Sacks

Superintendent John Deasy at L.A. Board of Education meeting on October 29, 2013. Photo credit: Brianna Sacks

After days of tense rumors that he would resign, L.A. Unified Superintendent John Deasy will remain at the helm of the nation’s second largest school district until 2016, the Los Angeles Board of Education announced Tuesday afternoon.

After a passionate rally led by scores of parents, community activists and educators, and a marathon five-hour deliberation behind closed doors, the board said Deasy had satisfactorily passed his performance and extended his contract.

Deasy has been battling a pro-union school board after the new president Richard Vladovic was elected in July. Before that, the brash and often stubborn leader had been working with a clearly pro-reform, anti-union board that easily passed his initiatives.

Deasy thanked the board Tuesday for a “good and robust evaluation” and “excellent and honest conversation so we can continue to lift youth out of poverty.” [Read more…]