LAUSD rejects plant manager plan

After a lengthy and heated discussion, the Los Angeles Unified school board on Tuesday sided with Superintendent Ramon Cortines over a controversial plan to reduce the number of plant managers at district schools.Connie Llanos in the Daily News.

On a 4-3 vote, the board rejected a plan to restore the staffing of one plant manager at every school, a proposal that had led to Cortines threatening to resign last week.

The resolution would have overruled a previously approved cost-cutting plan drafted by Cortines to cut up to 250 plant managers - who oversee maintenance and facilities issues at schools - to save the district about $11 million.