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Ray Cortines

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2009

    Some L.A. Teachers Get a Reprieve from Ax

    L.A. school superindendant Ray Cortines announced today that the LAUSD is rescinding layoff notices for 505 teachers. The breakdown, according to the L.A. Daily News,  includes "271 non-permanent, secondary English teachers; 114 non-permanent, secondary social studies teachers; and 120 non-perm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2009

    Swine Flu Scorecard: 99 Confirmed State Cases

    The state's Department of Public Health says there are 99 confirmed cases of swine flu in Nuke PillsCalifornia, with 119 "probable" cases being tested. One such probable victim is a Fairfax High School student -- the first such case recorded in the L.A. Unified School District. School superintendent ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2009

    School Board Saves 2,000 Teachers' Jobs With Fed Money

    School Superintendent Ray Cortines and the school board today announced they were saving about 2,000 elementary school teachers' jobs, thanks to federal stimulus money. It sort of reminds one of the finale of Threepenny Opera, when Macheath's bail money arrives to save him from the gallows -- or, as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Send in the Tow Trucks Public hearings will soon be held to gather comments on plans to speed traffic during rush hours on Pico and Olympic boulevards. LA TimesSign of the Times The recession began with Chevy and Washington Mutual signage being draped with canvas and now the AIG corporate logo has b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2009

    LAUSD Meets to Finalize Layoffs -- Unions Will Protest

    All the drama about Los Angeles Unified School District's cutting of nearly 8,600 jobs seemed to peak last week, when school superintendent Ray Cortines made his final recommendation for the cuts. Today, however, is the moment when LAUSD will actually vote to approve the layoffs, which inc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2009

    Cortines Gives Teachers the (Pink) Slip

    L.A. school superintendent Ray Cortines only climbed down a few hundred today from his original recommendation of cutting nearly 8900 teacher and support staff jobs to close a massive budget hole. (For 2009-10: $596.1 million; for the remainder of this year: $140 million.) The roughly 8,400 layoffs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2009

    Ramon Cortines' bizarre letter to Schwarzenegger

    Somebody provided us the strange letter Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Ramon Cortines purportedly sent today to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, about the governor's plan to allow school districts to reduce the school year, increase class size, and/or drop a key science course tha ... More >>

  • News

    June 26, 2008

    David Brewer in Ray Cortines' Shadow

    LAUSD's Superintendent is being uncomfortably outshone by his No. 2

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2008

    Ray Cortines: Friend or Foe?

    Once again, the name of Ray Cortines is buzzing around the halls of Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters, according to today's LA Times. The former interim superintendent of LA Unified is apparently being considered by David Brewer, the current superintendent and retired Navy admiral, to ... More >>

  • News

    December 7, 2000

    The View From District Headquarters

    A conversation with Superintendent Roy Romer

  • News

    July 27, 2000

    Letters

    A conversation with Superintendent Roy Romer

  • News

    June 29, 2000

    The Short Season of Howard Miller

    School district’s No. 2 departs as suddenly as he arrived

  • News

    May 18, 2000

    Life Without Ramon

    Massive changes await L.A. Unified

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