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The search committee for a new superintendent of Los Angeles Unified promised to look far and wide for the most qualified candidate to lead the nations second-largest school district. But in the end, the LAUSD school board decided to hire from within, choosing longtime deputy superintendent Michelle King to oversee more than 1,000 schools.
At a press conference announcing the appointment, board president Steve Zimmer invoked the Beatles, saying, To quote Lennon and McCartney, we didnt know the long and winding road would lead us to our own door when we started. And it was the right road, and it was the right door.
Yet to those who see L.A. Unified as a troubled morass, squeezed by low student achievement on one hand …
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