Op-Ed: Supt. Michelle King on frog dissection, STEM and the future of charters at LAUSD
Michelle King smiles as she presented as LAUSD’s next superintendent by members of the board of education during a news conference in Los Angeles on Jan. 11.
It bears repeating that the beleaguered Los Angeles Unified School District – the nation’s second largest, with two-thirds of a million school-kids – is on its ninth change of superintendent in 20 years (one man served three different times). After some off-the-chart outsiders, like a Colorado governor and a former vice admiral, the newest superintendent couldn’t be more of an insider. Michelle King has worked nearly 40 years in the district, as student aide, teacher, parent, principal, and chief deputy superintendent. After working in the shadow of so many others, what light of her own will she shine?
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