School District Official Named to Federal Panel
An associate superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District has been appointed to a new federal commission charged with closing the gap between student achievement and workplace requirements.
Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole appointed Gabriel Cortina, 49, to the part-time, advisory Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills, the Labor Department announced Thursday.
Cortina joined the school district as a part-time playground director in 1958, when he was 18, then began full time as an elementary school teacher in 1964. He served as principal of the East Los Angeles Skills Center and participated in Workforce L.A., a school district-private corporations joint venture to strengthen the connection between the schools and workplace.
The new commission has been assigned to develop national guidelines to better prepare high school students for entry into the work force.
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