Los Angeles schools Supt. Ramon C. Cortines earned more than $150,000 last year for serving on the board of one of the nation's leading educational publishing companies, a firm with more than $16 million in contracts with the school district over the last five years.
Scholastic Inc. provides the main reading intervention curriculum for the Los Angeles Unified School District, a program that is part of the company's fast-growing educational technology business.
Cortines has disclosed his relationship with the New York-based company, and officials say he has avoided any decisions on Scholastic contracts.
Cortines' role, however, has generated criticism among some former senior officials and current employees. They said the corporate tie creates an appearance of impropriety.
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An ethical public servant--and Cortines IS a public servant--would resign the post immediately. But the Broad bunch loves this guy and others of his ilk.
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One of the more interesting "facts" cited in the following article is the claim, backed up by the "Council of Great City Schools" that Cortines is underpaid by comparison with his peers. We don't know about other cities, but this year, Ron Huberman's, Chicago's "Chief Executive Officer," is being paid $230,000 — which is $30,000 more than his predecessor Arne Duncan was paid. Perhaps the difference is that Huberman and Duncan don't know anything about education and weren't even qualified to substitute teach in Illinois when they were elevated to the top post in the nation's third largest school system under mayoral control. At least Cortines had some educational background and credentials, rather than simply being a mayoral flunky and a media darling to Chicago's corporate media (including the Tribune and its TV and radio affiliates).
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