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UCLA Center for the Study of School Transformation
Distinguished Professor of Education at UCLA and Director of its Center for the Study of School Transformation; co-author Race, Equity, and Education: Sixty Years from Brown
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Pedro Noguera
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LA Unified Selects a District Insider as New Superintendent In the search for a new Superintendent, LA's elected school board paid a head-hunting firm to search the nation. Now the search is over — and the winner is Michelle King . She started out as a student aide at LAUSD, became a teacher, a principal — and finally the chief deputy to the last two superintendents. All seven board members made the choice unanimous. Michelle King holds her first news conference after being named Superintendent of LAUSD
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