Brewer slow in forming top team

More than a year after taking the helm of the nation's second-largest school district, Superintendent David Brewer III has yet to establish a critical inner-circle executive team even as key Los Angeles Unified professionals continue to leave.Naush Boghossian in the Daily News.

Seven upper-management professionals have left since Brewer took over and several top positions remain unfilled, including the head of instruction.

The gaps have begun to fuel quiet speculation that Brewer could be foundering in his role and might not be able to accomplish his vision for reforms in the LAUSD without such key advisers and managers.

"If you're not cleaning house as part of either rejuvenation or reforming the structure, then you're getting wholesale desert