Verdugo High power struggle

Teachers and parents at Verdugo Hills High School are embroiled in a power struggle with Los Angeles Unified Superintendent John Deasy over the selection of a principal for the Sunland-Tujunga campus. Connie Llanos in the Daily News.

With just one week remaining until the first day of classes, Deasy vetoed their hand-picked candidate and appointed an interim principal to succeed Diane Klewitz, who retired last year.

"I look forward to working with them on the selection of a principal," Deasy said. "But for the moment I have put an interim there as we continue to look for the right person for the job that I can be in consensus with."