By Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy will retain his post until 2016. While some locals support the Los Angeles Unified School District’s decision to keep Deasy, others disagree.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Deasy was given a satisfactory review from the L.A. Unified Board of Education during a five-hour closed special meeting. The positive evaluation allowed Deasy to retain his post.
The day before his evaluation, however, unnamed sources told the LA Times that Deasy had plans to resign in February 2014.
Apparently, the rumors were wrong.
Deasy was perceived to be unfit for his position by some after he failed to reach eight of his nine academic goals set for the year, according to the LA Times.
Although Deasy did not meet all of the goals he had set, we think the board’s decision to allow Deasy to keep his job until 2016 is appropriate.
It would be short-sighted to expect Deasy to achieve all of his goals for the nation’s second-largest school district in only two years.
With thousands of students to oversee, we believe Deasy should be given until 2016 to make noticeable changes within the district.
Instead of giving Deasy leeway, however, we feel he should be held more accountable in the future.
Taxpayer money supports the LAUSD. We want the best for our students, so it’s important that Deasy and fellow administrators make sure students are getting the best education possible.
Not to mention, with a pledge to spend nearly $1 billion on district-issued iPads for LAUSD students, Deasy needs to manage taxpayer funds more wisely.
Unfortunately for Deasy, though, his iPad initiative has turned into more of a scandal. Nearly 300 LAUSD students hacked into their district-issued iPads to view prohibited material.
Whether his image can fully recover from the controversy remains unclear.
But in the future, Deasy should reel in his lofty ambitions and set goals that he know he can achieve.
Regardless of his imminent success or failure, we believe that Deasy is the right guy for the job right now, seeing as no other qualified candidates have recently emerged.
