LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Board of Education has appointed a top official with the country’s leading school reform foundation as the No. 2 leader of the nation’s second-largest school district.
The board voted Tuesday to name John Deasy, deputy director of education for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as deputy superintendent.
Deasy currently oversees the $200 million educational grant program for the Gates Foundation, the nation’s biggest player in the school reform movement.
The action fills a post that has been vacant since the previous deputy superintendent, Ramon Cortines, was appointed superintendent two years ago. The appointment also creates a possible successor to the 77-year-old Cortines, who has 18 months left on his contract.
