Having just steered Los Angeles Unified through an incredibly trying three years, Supt. Austin Beutner said Wednesday that he won’t be back for more. His looming departure won’t help a district badly in need of stability in top management.
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Austin Beutner, LAUSD Superintendent, addresses the media during a press conference held outside the Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles in Aug. 2020.
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Austin Beutner, LAUSD Superintendent, addresses the media during a press conference held outside the Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles in Aug. 2020.
April 21, 2021
After leading Los Angeles Unified for three years and through a year of school closures forced by the Covid-19 pandemic, the superintendent of the nation’s second-largest school district announced that he will be stepping down in June.
Supt. Austin Beutner announced the decision on Wednesday, in a letter to the school board, one week after schools reopened for in-person instruction for the first time in over a year.
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