Debra Duardo, a former high school dropout, will become the top education official for Los Angeles County, heading an agency that provides schooling for teenage inmates as well as for thousands of disabled studentsprograms that have been criticized in recent years.
Duardo, 53, was the consensus pick of the countys five-member Board of Supervisors after closed-session interviews with three finalists last week. She is scheduled to be formally hired Tuesday, when the board votes in open session.
She would replace Arturo Delgado, who will have served five years when he retires in June.
Duardo, a veteran administrator, comes over from the mammoth L.A. Unified School District, where shes worked for two decades and …
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