The Los Angeles School Board is expected to name John Deasy, now serving as an under-boss to Superintendent Ramon Cortines, to be the new superintendent of the second largest school district in the United State, serving nearly seven hundred thousand students, employing about 45,000 teachers. Deasy came to Los Angeles in August 2010 and immediately became a major and controversial voice supporting "value added" performance evaluations for teachers.
His rapid rise has also been attributed to his connections to the Broad and Gates foundations — as well as to
a controversial claim to being called by the title "doctor." Deasy claims to have earned his PhD at the University of Louisville (UL) in the College of Education.
The Dean of the College at the time was one Robert Felner, now serving a jail term of 63 months for a variety of frauds committed against UL — and other universities.
One charge against Feiner was the misappropriation of a $649,000 federal grant.
In total, Felner was convicted of stealing $2.3 million in research grants. He was ordered to pay UL $51,000 and the University of Rhode Island $1.3 million. Felner resigned from UL in 2008. He was sentenced on May 17, 2010.
John Deasy earned his PhD directly under Felner, in a period of four months, earning nine UL credit hours.
Prior to coming to UL, Deasy had awarded Felner’s research company, the National Center on Public Education and Social Policy, a $375,000 grant from the Santa Monica district where Deasy was head. Deasy, after allegations rose up about his imaginary degree but before the investigation, was quoted in the Washington Post as saying, "If the university made errors in the awarding of the degree, I do hope they rescind it. My responsibility is to do everything I was advised and told to do..."
His willingness to do what he is told is equally interesting....In September, 2008, during an investigation done by Maryland Gazette.net, Deasy refused to release his academic records.
After meritoriously buying his PhD, Deasy went on to work with the Gates Foundation where he focused his eyes on teacher evaluations and merit pay. He also served as superintendent in Coventry Schools in Rhode Island, Prince Georges County, and Santa Monica.
He was a Broad and Annenberg Fellow. http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=1896§ion=ArticleThe ruling class places their fraudulent shills wherever they please. Qualifications? Forget about it, they'll fake them for their shills.
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