INGLEWOOD
Board Votes Not to Rehire McKenna as Schools Chief
George J. McKenna III, whose life as principal of a Los Angeles high school became the subject of a TV movie, is losing his job as Inglewood schools chief after failing to reverse academic decline and worsening fiscal conditions.
The Inglewood Unified School Board announced this week that it would not renew the superintendent’s contract when it expires in June. The 3-2 vote on McKenna, 53, was actually made in a closed session two weeks earlier, on the same night county education officials told the school board they were assigning a fiscal overseer to the district because of its “demonstrated failure to follow through with prudent fiscal policies.”
McKenna could not be reached for comment. School Board President Loystene Irvine declined to say why the board was letting McKenna go.
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