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Cracked, Broken, and Mute: How LAUSD Wastes Money

Yesterday’s LA Times reported the following from our globe-trotting, glad-handing, tv-anchor-bopping mayor (this isn’t TMZ but, btw, who was that cute lady beside him gazing adoringly at him on yesterday’s news reports?):
At Liechty, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa led a forum Monday with teachers and parents, stressing the need for “shared sacrifice” and “creative solutions” to save [...]

Thank God We’re Not Washington, D.C.

I just discovered an amazing, horrific series done last year by The Washington Post investigating D.C.’s school district.  Bureaucratic red tape, mismanagement, fraud, outright thievery!  Granted, educating in D.C. is tougher than in LA because the US Congress, not any particular state, controls funding for the District, and so they get buffeted by all sorts [...]

LAUSD Mismanagement

Everything Will Be Forgotten
Does anyone remember this time last year when KCAL/KCBS was running an expose on millions of dollars being mispent by administrators using their school credit cards?  Ring a bell in the dusty reaches of memory?  Here’s the video version to jog your brain:
LAUSD Credit Card Scandal: October, 2007
I wonder what ever happened [...]