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Parents, residents demand transparency amid superintendent probe as LAUSD board recesses into closed session
Summary
Public commenters at a Feb. 26 Los Angeles Unified School District Board meeting urged greater financial and special-education transparency and referenced an FBI inquiry into the superintendent; the board recessed into closed session to discuss a personnel matter and continued the closed session until 12:30 p.m. the following day.
Public commenters at a special meeting of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education on Feb. 26 pressed the board for greater transparency about district finances and the status of an inquiry involving the superintendent, and the board recessed into closed session to discuss a personnel matter.
The meeting opened at 4:04 p.m., and the clerk told the public the board would take comments on a single personnel item — the general superintendent of schools — pursuant to Government Code section 54957 before moving into closed session. A resident who spoke in Spanish accused board members of hypocrisy and corruption, saying, "You don't deserve to represent this district" and that poor students are being…
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