The superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) believes that student test scores should be part of teachers’ evaluations.

Ramon C. Cortines, who is retiring next year, told administrators recently that the district will develop a new evaluation system, and he wants at least 30 percent of a teacher’s evaluation based on the scores. Currently, pupils’ California Standardized Test (CST) scores do not figure in the instructors’ evaluations.

Pioneering cosmetologist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Annie Turnbo Malone was born Aug. 9, 1869 in Metropolis, Ill. The 10th of 11 children born to Robert Turnbo, a poor farmer, and Isabella Cook Turnbo, Annie was raised by an older sister, after her parents died, while she was young.

Growing up, Malone loved playing in her sisters’ hair, creating fabulous new styles. That interest would lead her to become  a leader in hair care, although she never finished high school.