As I write this post, I am cautiously optimistic that at least one major aspect of fraud and malfeasance at LAUSD might finally be addressed by the Civil Rights Office of the federal Department of Education. After Secretary of Education and President Obama made speeches and appearances on how existing civil rights laws would be used to gain compliance from districts like LAUSD that have little concrete results to show in dealing with their predominantly Latino and African American population, I didn't expect that they would move so fast.