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Published on Thursday, May 15, 2008
By Jonathan Dobrer
IF the Los Angeles Unified School District were a state, it would be a failed state - the Afghanistan, Rwanda and Somalia of school districts.
A fair comparison? Well, any number of countries have budgets smaller than the LAUSD's, and the district's failure is as massive as its budget.
What distinguishes the LAUSD from just the run-of-the-mill failures of other institutions and governments is that it fails dramatically both on the micro level of serving individual students and on the macro level by failing to deliver even adequate education systemically.
On the macro level of Platonic incompetence was the recent admission of failure with the hiring of former Superintendent Ramon Cortines.
While I'm glad that Superintendent David Brewer III knew enough to ask for help, and I do not blame the admiral for the LAUSD's failure, he should have known better than to fall for the bait of the original job offer
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