L.A. Unified schools' chief works for district supplier

L.A. Unified schools' chief works for district supplier
By Howard Blume
LA Times
February 12, 2010

Los Angeles schools Supt. Ramon C. Cortines earned more than $150,000 last year for serving on the board of one of the nation's leading educational publishing companies, a firm with more than $16 million in contracts with the school district over the last five years.

Scholastic Inc. provides the main reading intervention curriculum for the Los Angeles Unified School District, a program that is part of the company's fast-growing educational technology business...