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People: Garcetti & Deasy at Friday Obama Event
Here’s what may be a first-ever published picture of LA Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti (left) standing with LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy (right), taken by LA School Report publisher Jamie Alter Lynton during last week’s fundraising visit from President Obama. Though endorsed by the teachers union, candidate Garcetti declined to go along with UTLA attacks on Deasy during...
By LA School Report | June 11, 2013
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Mayor-Elect Garcetti Searching for the Middle
On the education front, Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti is sounding just like candidate Eric Garcetti, always looking for a middle ground. On the issue of who his main education deputy or advisor will be, Garcetti spokesman Yusef Robb told KPCC’s Adolfo Guzman-Lopez: “We want to lower the temperature a little bit on the politics that have...
By Hillel Aron | June 10, 2013
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Partnership Head “Exploring” Run for Public Office
Marshall Tuck was 33 when Mayor Antonio VIllaraigosa asked him to leave his position at Green Dot Public Charter Schools to become the first CEO of a new entity called the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools. Six and a half years later — just a few weeks before Eric Garcetti takes over as the new...
By Hillel Aron | June 7, 2013
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Joan Sullivan to Head LA Partnership Schools
Today was Joan Sullivan’s last day as Deputy Mayor for Education, and it turns out she won’t be out of work very long. That’s because she’s been tapped to take over for Marshall Tuck as the new CEO of Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, which manages 22 schools within LAUSD. According to a press release,...
By Hillel Aron | June 5, 2013
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Garcetti’s Education Staffing Plans Unclear
On Friday, Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti named longtime advisor Rich Llewellyn to oversee his transition team. According to the LA Times, he’ll help “identify hundreds of people who will work in his office and serve as political appointees.” The big question in education circles is whether Garcetti will have an education team like Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa before him,...
By Hillel Aron | June 4, 2013
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New Mayor’s Wife Has School Reform Past
A recent LA Times piece looks at Amy Wakeland, wife of newly elected Mayor Eric Garcetti, calling her “a powerful player in [Garcetti’s] political life” and noting that in the past she has worked for unnamed L.A. Unified School District board candidates. A helpful tipster pointed out to us that in 2003, Wakeland served as spokesperson for former...
By Hillel Aron | May 28, 2013
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Look: An Unbalanced Breakfast for Mayors Villaraigosa & Garcetti
Outgoing Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa had breakfast with incoming Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti yesterday at the Getty House in what the LA Times called the beginning of the “formal transition of power.” We don’t know a whole lot these two disagree on in the area of education, but we can point to one thing: Board member Steve Zimmer. Villaraigosa...
By Hillel Aron | May 24, 2013
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Poll: Education Small Factor in Mayoral Voting
The most recent LA Times / USC poll has candidate Eric Garcetti up 7 points over his rival Wendy Greuel in tomorrow’s Mayoral runoff. However, the poll suggests that education is not a very big factor for voters making up their minds — despite all the policy proposals, campaign trail back-and-forth between the candidates, and school...
By Hillel Aron | May 20, 2013
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Still No School Board Endorsement From Garcetti
At last week’s KCRW debate, host Warren Olney asked the two Mayoral candidates who they’d endorsed in the School Board District 6 runoff taking place on Tuesday. Wendy Greuel answered without hesitation: Antonio Sanchez. Eric Garcetti said he had only met with one of the candidates, but was “due to talk to the other one shortly,...
By Hillel Aron | May 16, 2013
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Mayoral Candidates Lack Commitment Reformers & Teachers Want
“For the reformers, the only concern is that Greuel seems not as willing as the current mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, to take big risks for the cause.” writes the LA Weekly‘s Gene Maddaus in his latest piece. “For the teachers’ unions who backed Garcetti, the concern is that while he would be better than Greuel, he might not...
By LA School Report | May 13, 2013