Debra Duardo '94, M.A. '96, Ph.D. '13

Debra Duardo, a former high school dropout, will become the top education official for Los Angeles County, heading an agency that provides schooling for teenage inmates as well as for thousands of disabled students.

Duardo, a veteran administrator, came from the mammoth Los Angeles Unified School District, where she’s worked for two decades and heads the student health and human services division.

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