Ramon C. Cortines

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ramon C. Cortines is an American educator who is the Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District in Los Angeles, California. He briefly served as Superintendent of Schools in LA in 2000 and has headed a total of five school districts nationally. Cortines is a former Superintendent of Schools in the California cities of San Francisco, San Jose and Pasadena, along with being a former New York City Schools Chancellor. He was appointed to lead the New York City Schools in September 1993 by the former New York City Board of Education, serving during the last months of the administration of Mayor David Dinkins and during the first years of the administration of Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Cortines and Giuliani feuded for much of their shared tenure, with Giuliani being critical of Cortines' running of the schools. Cortines stepped down from the chancellorship in October 1995, going into the private sector.