Austin Michael Beutner (born April 8, 1960) is an American businessman who served as Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent from May 1, 2018 to June 30, 2021. He previously served as the first deputy mayor of Los Angeles from 2010 through 2013, and briefly ran in the 2013 Los Angeles mayoral election .

Austin Beutner was named Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District in May 2018. He is a civic leader, philanthropist, public servant and former businessman who has worked for the past decade to make Los Angeles a stronger community.

2021年6月30日 · Austin Beutner, now in his final day as superintendent of the nation’s second-largest school district, has been alternately praised, denounced and, finally, thanked for his three years as a “crisis manager.”

2021年4月21日 · Austin Beutner, who turned down a contract extension, was both praised and criticized for how he managed the nation’s second-largest public school system through a series of crises.

2021年6月26日 · LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner — who navigated labor unrest, calls to defund campus police and a deadly pandemic during his three-year term — leaves office in a few days.

2025年2月11日 · LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles Unified School District students and Prop. 28 author Austin Beutner have filed a lawsuit against the school district and Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho ...

2021年6月30日 · Beutner, a former investment banker, deputy mayor and publisher of the Los Angeles Times, was seen as a leader who could get things done without putting the district into a...

2021年4月22日 · L.A. schools Supt. Austin Beutner, who has guided the nation’s second-largest school district through a tumultuous year of coronavirus-forced campus closures and a disruptive teachers strike,...

2025年2月14日 · Austin Beutner, then-Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, speaks at a news conference at the school district headquarters in Los Angeles, March 13, 2020. [AP Photo/Damian ...

Austin Beutner is a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. He is the former publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times and The San Diego Union-Tribune , and the first publisher to serve in both roles.