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KTLA TV reports:

Beleaguered Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. John Deasy announced [October 16] that he had tendered his resignation. Deasy would stay on with the district on a special assignment through the end of the year, according to a join[sic] statement from the superintendent and the school district. [...] As part of the severance agreement, he would receive about 60 days' pay, which would equal about $60,000, according to the paper.

Deasy, 53, has led the nation's second-largest school district for 3.5 years. During that time, he has faced much scrutiny and criticism, particularly over a technology program that he pushed for which would have spent more than $1 billion to provide an iPad to every student, teacher and administrator at LAUSD schools.

The program was suspended in August after it was discovered that Deasy and his top deputy had ties to Apple executives and the company that was providing the curriculum for the iPads.

He also came under fire after a new student information system called MiSIS malfunctioned upon making its debut at the start of the school year. The $130 million program was blamed for scheduling blunders that left some district students without classes for weeks, according to the Times.

The Los Angeles Daily News has other details on Deasy's tenure including:

The headwinds for Deasy [...] grew heavier with two developments this summer: the revelation that Deasy and former right-hand man Jaime Aquino had talked about the iPads project with executives from Apple and the software firm Pearson before bidding had officially begun, raising the possibility of favoritism; [there were also] glitches in the district's new MiSiS student record-keeping system.

You may remember that, within days of receiving them, the kids had hacked past the school district's restrictions on the devices.

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