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  • CA: Romer's secret fund - Nonprofit created to talk up LAUSD

    07/09/2005 9:53:31 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 2 replies · 370+ views
    LA Daily News ^ | 7/9/05 | Naush Boghossian
    Days after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his support for an effort to break up the LAUSD, Superintendent Roy Romer quietly created a nonprofit organization that has raised nearly $150,000 to tout the school district's accomplishments, the Daily News has learned. Despite having the district's nearly $1 million public-relations operation at his disposal, Romer founded Friends of L.A. Schools -- with himself as CEO -- to counter criticism by Schwarzenegger and then-mayoral challenger Bob Hertzberg that the Los Angeles Unified School District was too large and inefficient. "This began in February when there was a lot of criticism of the district,...