The Los Angeles Unified Board of Education is set to discuss the status of Superintendent David Brewer's employment in a special closed session meeting Tuesday.
The state's open government laws require the board to disclose the nature of an employee evaluation, and this discussion is under the label "Employee Discipline/Dismissal/Release."
The agenda was sent out the day before Thanksgiving -- and some may have missed the red flag.
The Los Angeles Times reports in a story set to run in tomorrow's paper that unnamed sources say the board will discuss buying Brewer out of his three-year contract, which recently hit its second anniversary. Brewer makes $381,000 per year, including a housing allowance.
L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, former Mayor Richard Riordan and philanthropist Eli Broad are said to favor Brewer's departure. Brewer has been criticized by some as being ineffective; Senior Deputy Superintendent Ray Cortines had largely run the show since being hired in April.
The agenda is not on the board's website, but was sent out to those that subscribe to district agendas. I've uploaded it here:12-2-08C.pdf
*No action was taken on Brewer's fate, David Zahniser and Howard Blume report in The Times:
Although board members and sources close to them suggested that the votes were there to dismiss Brewer, a complication arose with the absence of board member Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte. LaMotte is representing the Los Angeles Unified School District in San Diego at a weeklong meeting of the California School Boards Assn., and she reportedly declined to return to deliberate Brewer's future.
LaMotte is the board's only African American member, and officials were reluctant to act against Brewer, who also is black, without LaMotte in the room. LaMotte's trip to San Diego -- a two- to three-hour drive from Los Angeles -- had been scheduled some time ago.
The Daily News, whose coverage of policy and Beaudry-centric topics the Breeze picks up, is set to have a story tomorrow.
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