Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Austin Beutner on the extensive and unprecedented challenges the district—its students, families, faculty and staff—face in the transition to remote ‘distance learning.’
The Los Angeles Unified School District—the second largest school district in the nation—serves more than 700,000 students and employs more than 75,000 in faculty and staff. With school facilities shuttered amidst the statewide stay-at-home order, public education faces hurdles it has never experienced before.
The Planning Report spoke with Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Austin Beutner on the extensive and unprecedented challenges the district—its students, families, faculty and staff—face in the transition to remote 'distance learning.' Beutner further provides his insight on the ways in which Los Angeles Unified has partnered with local and national organizations in their goal to continue providing a quality education and support to students and families in need:
There is no playbook for how you take an organization of 75,000 people—where the practice is built on meeting, discussing, and engaging with each other in close proximity—to a virtual organization, while the lives of students, families, and employees are turned upside down."
Read the full interview at The Planning Report.
Read the full story: Austin Beutner: Leading Without Precedent, the Nation’s 2nd Largest School District
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