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John Deasy’s MiSiS cRiSiS shocks LAUSD’s conscience

August 17, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

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“I was interested in the fact that the scandal over Deasy’s PhD hit the headlines at the same time he was hired by Gates. His financial connections with Robert Felner date back to his Santa Monica days” — Susan Ohanian

The LAUSD MiSiS cRiSiS is Deasy's Disaster.

The LAUSD MiSiS cRiSiS is Deasy’s Disaster.

Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) Superintendent John Deasy’s job was to insure that the My Integrated Student Information System (MiSiS) would be ready for roll out when the school year began. But instead of doing his job, he was “busy” testifying on behalf of right-wing millionaire David F. Welch against his own school district and stabbing the education professionals he is supposed to collaborate with in the back with his outrageous lies on the witness stand. That is, of course, when he wasn’t pushing his failed Pearson, PLC Common Core iPad plan, and using District 3 Board Member Tamar Galatzan as a proxy to attack reasonable taxpayer oversight in the person of Stuart Magruder.

What was Deasy supposed to be doing instead of testifying for reactionary millionaire David Welch? Did you guess overseeing MiSiS? #LAUSD

— Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) August 16, 2014

Let no one say that Deasy isn’t earning every penny of his $.36-Million salary when attending lavish buffets with the likes of United Way of Greater Los Angeles’ Elise Buik and the board members of Welch’s Students Matter. Any man with a limousine driver is far too important to do his actual work, even if not doing it means throwing the entire district into chaos. Surprisingly, the Deasy sycophants in the corporate media like the Daily News are chronicling his latest epic failure: LAUSD in crisis over its new MiSiS computer system. Maybe he’ll get some praise for his MiSiS mishandling on his fellow LA Fund board member Jamie Alter-Lynton’s blog, but in the reality based world such Fox-News-like spin is of little value.

John Deasy tried to blame Mark Berndt coverup on Dr. McKenna, Pearson iPad flap on Dr. Aquino, who will he blame his MiSiS cRiSiS on? #LAUSD

— Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) August 16, 2014

It’s more than likely that in his accustomed fashion Deasy will try to blame his latest boondoggle on others. After all, this is the same Superintendent who deceitfully (along with opportunist Mark Ridley Thomas and erstwhile Board candidate Alex Johnson) tried to blame Beaudry’s Mark Berndt coverup on Dr. George McKenna, despite the hard fact of those events happening long before McKenna was on the scene. This is the same Superintendent who pinned the Pearson iPad flap on Dr. Jaime Aquino, and then cried crocodile tears when his subordinate ended up resigning in disgrace. So who will Deasy blame his MiSiS cRiSiS on? Perhaps that’s why Deasy’s second staunchest supporter on the board, Tamar Galatzan, was quick to try and abdicate any responsibility for holding John Deasy accountable. One of her opponents in the upcoming election for the LAUSD District 3 seat astutely pointed out that if it isn’t in Galatzan’s job to hold the man she championed to be hired accountable, then whose is it?

However, when discussing MiSiS we need to squarely put the blame where it belongs — on Deasy. The Greeks have an idiom about how the “fish rots from the head.” Instead of testifying for forces sworn to destroy public education, Deasy should have been earning his staggering salary by doing his job! The MiSiS cRiSiS is Deasy’s Disaster.

Broad Superintendent Academy graduate John Deasy never taught at a public school, but he was an executive for the Gates Foundation

Broad Superintendent Academy graduate John Deasy never taught at a public school, but he was an executive for the Gates Foundation

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Filed Under: Los Angeles, School Boards, Uncategorized Tagged With: LAUSD, MiSiS, neoliberalism, Privatization, rdsathene, Superintendent John Deasy

Comments

  1. Rene Diedrich says

    August 18, 2014 at 2:20 am

    Agreed, Dr. Skeels. This man , or should I say malevolent puppet? , has actually allowing classes at Banning HS English classes schedule over 50 kids . This means a teacher has to make 250 or so kids college ready or career prepared this year. Or else! Never mind that they are EL, IEP
    ( thanks to oil refinery) and remediation students. I hear they are doing an experiement iin another state with 3000 kindergarteners all in one class. Now that schools are a business these reformers are going to treat their “assets” (students) like livestock and “human capital” (employees) = disposable. Does that sound like it’s improving?

    • Rene Diedrich says

      August 18, 2014 at 2:21 am

      Apologies for typos. There are 300 kindergarteners

    • Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene says

      August 18, 2014 at 3:11 am

      Thank you for your salient commentary Ms. Diedrich.

      Reminder that I hold a BA from UCLA, am just starting law school, and that I do not hold a PhD. Unlike certain superintendents, who “earned” their doctoral degrees with nine-credit-hours, I won’t take credit for a degree I don’t hold.

  2. Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene says

    August 18, 2014 at 2:04 pm

    Readers might want to read the redqueeninla’s take on Deasy’s latest blunder http://redqueeninla.k12newsnetwork.com/2014/08/18/when-is-accountability-good-for-the-gander/

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