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L.A. Unified Turns to Insider for Superintendent

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The Los Angeles Unified School District has a new superintendent. After a high-profile nationwide search, it went with an insider, Michelle King. The move marks a shift for the nation's second-largest school district. Like others around the state, for about a decade it has recruited outsiders, some of whom were not career educators.

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