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Jackie Goldberg, holding hands with wife Sharon Stricker, is sworn in as L.A. school board member on May 21, 2019, by retired Judge Teresa Sanchez-Gordon.Jackie Goldberg, the president of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s school board, announced earlier this month that she will retire in December 2024 after completing her current term. In this interview, she reflects and the triumphs and challenges of her career.
“It’s been the honor of my life to advocate for children. I got into this work, starting with teaching, because I wanted the best educational experience for teachers and students everywhere.” Why? Because we had to acquire the property, one parcel at a time, and often use eminent domain, and often through trials and lawsuits. So that was a big problem. So then, I was able to get … on the joint committee between the Senate and the Assembly, what the bond issues would be, and I got a carve-out and a definition of extremely overcrowded districts.
Well, it’s because you can’t tax rich people; you can’t tax property owners; you can’t really talk to anybody unless they vote that they like to be taxed. Well, what are the odds of that? We haven’t been able to do very well, have we? may refuse to agree to be taxed and $800 million defeating an initiative that said, “Oh, guess what. It’s time for you to pay your share. You made your wealth in California. Give some of it back to the children and stop being such greedy, soulless suckers.”
I think what we’re about to have is an assault by right-wing groups to try to convince low-income immigrants that are Catholic and Christian evangelists that their children are being sexualized in their schools, and so they should go after the school and go after the school board. That is going to be a growing issue because the right wing has a lot of money. And their view is: ‘We don’t know what to do with it, so we’re just going to go harass every school board in America.
And the ones that were legitimate concerns: They wanted a few fewer housing units; they wanted a lot more services for the people in the housing because they didn’t want them wandering around looking for services. All those things, which made sense to us, was what we did, and we had no feedback that was negative once that project was done.Your time as an educator goes back to the ’60s. A lot has happened and changed since then.
I want to do more, to work more with schools on what media literacy is, and how to handle money, and when to take out a credit card, and when not to have a credit card and all of that, because kids are still getting ripped off way too much, particularly the lower-income kids, because their families don’t have credit cards and haven’t figured out the disasters that they represent.
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