The LAUSD PR Sage Continues
The Times wrote again about LAUSD hiring image consultants.
Just what L.A.'s dizzy school district needs -- quality spin
December 1, 2007
It's too bad Los Angeles Unified School District officials didn't make the first assignment for their new spin doctors spinning the news that they've hired spin doctors.
The district's fledgling public relations effort stumbled this week, when news leaked out that Supt. David Brewer handed out contracts worth more than $350,000 a year to a team of consultants charged with improving the district's public image.
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And the Times wrote about the U.S. News & World Report's first-ever ranking of public high schools.
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