L.A. school system poised to hire senior Gates Foundation official
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - 11:02
in Mathematics & Economics
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.