Watch L.A. Unified schools Supt. Ramon Cortines talk with Times columnist Steve Lopez

Dec. 18, 2015 12:46 PM PT

Outgoing Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. Ramon C. Cortines joined Steve Lopez for a conversation at the Los Angeles Times on Dec. 9. Cortines touched on the district’s iPad crisis, Eli Broad’s charter school plan and what the next superintendent will be up against, among other topics.

If you missed the event, you can watch video selections from the event, below, as well as the entire conversation.

You can read our coverage of the event here, and the reactions of L.A. Unified high school students here.

LAUSD Supt. Ramon C. Cortines in conversation with L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez

Every Child Succeeds Act vs. No Child Left Behind

Dealing with the iPad debacle and other crises

The next LAUSD superintendent

Charter school expansion and Eli Broad

Are elected school boards harming kids?

The role of parents

LAUSD Supt. Ramon C. Cortines in conversation with L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez

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Daniela Gerson was a community engagement editor at the Los Angeles Times. She left in 2016. As a journalist and educator, her work focuses on multiethnic communities and innovations in participatory media. She was previously the director of the Civic Engagement and Journalism Initiative at USC’s Annenberg School. Gerson was the founding editor of Alhambra Source, a research-based site investigating how local news can foster civic engagement. She also developed Reporter Corps, a program to train young adults to report on their own communities. Gerson has contributed to the Financial Times Magazine, the New York Times, PRI’s The World, Der Spiegel, WNYC, and was a staff immigration reporter for the New York Sun. Daniela is the recipient of Alexander von Humboldt and Arthur F. Burns fellowships. A graduate of Brown University and USC Annenberg, she speaks Spanish and Portuguese, and can get by in German and Hebrew.

Watch L.A. Unified schools Supt. Ramon Cortines talk with Times columnist Steve Lopez

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