Change for the Better at Bonita Unified?

For years now, residents of La Verne and San Dimas have too often opened their morning newspaper to find another negative story with their school district's name on it...

For more than a decade, Bonita Unified displayed a top-down management style of the worst kind, run by superintendents who could not, or would not play well with others.

But a few months ago school board members showed they were going to change that tradition when they hired Gary Rapkin...

Richard P. McKee is past-president of Californians Aware and a La Verne resident.

From the SGVT.