Mariana Dale covers early childhood for the LAist and KPCC newsroom.
Grace Ortiz and Karla Griego are vying to replace retiring LAUSD Board president Jackie Goldberg. The winner will represent a curiously shaped district that spans from Southeast to Northeast L.A.The seven members of the L.A. Unified’s board oversee the nation’s second-largest school district, with more than 538,000 students enrolled. The district is also the county’s second-largest employer with more than 74,000 educators, administrators, and support staff on its payroll.
, you can keep our voter guide accessible and up to date, helping you and your neighbors make informed choices in local elections.Griego has been an educator in the Los Angeles Unified School District for almost two decades and most recently taught special education. Griego has also held leadership positions in United Teacher Los Angeles, the union representing more than 37,000 LAUSD educators. She is the parent of an LAUSD high school student.
Yes. “ gives us clarity. It gives us a pathway on how to assess when there is vacant space for a charter to come in because before what was done was, nobody visited a school site… There was a lot of confusion as to what to do, what determined an empty space or an empty classroom.”Yes, because I believe in community-based safety. What I would have done was continue to push them to use it. The money is there, but the work wasn't done to implement it, and some people are frustrated by that.
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