Ray cortines biography

Ramón Curtis Cortines is an American educator who has served as the chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, and the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District in Los Angeles, California.
Ramón Curtis Cortines (born 1932) is an American educator who has served as the chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, and the superintendent.
Ramon Cortines is a nationally respected educator.

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Ramon Cortines

Educator

b. July 22, 1932

“Success is knowing who you are. If you don’t like yourself, change.”

Ramon Cortines is a nationally respected educator. He served as the superintendent of the Los Angeles and New York City school districts.

Born in San Antonio, Texas, Cortines was adopted and raised in San Francisco. His parents, who lacked higher education, stressed the importance of academics. He received a bachelor’s degree in speech and education and master’s degrees in school administration and adult learning from Pasadena College, now Point Loma Nazarene University.

Beginning his career in 1956, he taught at the elementary, middle, high school and college levels. He served successively as superintendent of the Pasadena, San Jose, San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles school districts. He also served as the advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Education and as the assistant secretary for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement.

Cortines is known for the open dialogue he fostered between parents, unions and administration, and for his hands-

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Ramón C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts

Public arts school in Los Angeles, California

The Ramón C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts, known unofficially as “VAPA” by students, is a performing arts public high school in the Los Angeles Unified School District in the United States. It is located on the site of the old Fort Moore at the corner of Grand Avenue and Cesar E. Chavez Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, adjacent to Chinatown. Grand Arts anchors the north end of Los Angeles' "Grand Avenue Cultural Corridor".^[2]^[3] The school's distinctive architecture has made the facility noteworthy beyond the Los Angeles area.

The school admits around 250-300 incoming freshmen students each year, with Media Arts, Dance, Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts accounting for a portion of the incoming freshman. However, Visual Arts is by far the most applied to and the largest, with around 30%-40% of the school belonging to the Visual Arts Academy. Despite this, Visual Academy consistently receives less funding from the school per capita than all o

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Ramón C. Cortines

American educator (born 1932)

Ramón C. Cortines
Cortines in 2010
Acting January 15, 2000 – June 7, 2000
Preceded by	Ruben Zacarias
Succeeded by	Roy Romer
In office December 10, 2008 – April 15, 2011
Preceded by	David L. Brewer III
Succeeded by	John Deasy
Acting October 15, 2014 – January 11, 2016
Preceded by	John Deasy
Succeeded by	Michelle King
Born	Ramón Curtis Cortines 1932 (age 92–93) San Antonio, Texas, United States

Ramón Curtis Cortines (born 1932)^[1] is an American educator who has served as the chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, and the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District in Los Angeles, California. Cortines returned as Los Angeles superintendent in October 2014, and his contract was extended in June 2015 for another year, through June 2016.^[2]

Early life and career

Cortines was born in San Antonio, Texas.^[3] He briefly served as superintendent of schools in LA in