Book supplier paid LAUSD chief $150K last year <http://www.scpr.org/news/2010/02/12/cortines-freelance/%20>
Ethics watchdogs say they're troubled that Los Angeles Unified's superintendent is supplementing his salary with money paid by a large company that sells reading material and services to the school district.
L.A. Unified Superintendent Ramon Cortines sits on the board of directors of the New York City-based Scholastic Corporation. The /Los Angeles Times/ reports that federal filings disclosed Cortines earned $151,000 last year from the company, and roughly the same amount the previous two years.
A filing from five months ago indicates that he owns about $100,000 worth of stock in the company. The school district pays him a $250,000 salary
...Scholastic has $16 million in contracts to provide L.A. Unified with reading material...