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Today in How To LA: What you need to know to vote for LA school board members, a canceled city council meeting after demands for two councilmembers to resign; plus a spooky outdoors trail adventure for your consideration. all the inner workings of a school district
. That often meant working through early mornings to catch parents as they dropped their kids off at school or working through late nights at board meetings — taking note of every little thing the board members and district administrators were discussing.importance of knowing how the entire sausage gets made.
All of the discussions and decisions that affect our kids happen at those public meetings with the district officials, community members and, lest we forget, the elected board members.The seven Los Angeles Unified School District board members are in charge of more than 542,000 students who attend public and charter schools in the city. Board members have the power to hire and fire the superintendent, set forth a budget and decide how it will be used, work with parents on issues in their district and vote on charter schools who hope to vie for the district’s resources.Making difficult budget decisions due to a dwindling student enrollment
Serving students academically after the worst of a life-upending pandemic that caused many learning setbacks Successfully implementing the Black Student Achievement Plan after redirecting a third of the school police budget to the initiative. for District 2 and District 6 to talk about their platforms for our Voter Game Plan program. Candidate for District 6 Kelly Gonez declined to participate in the roundtable discussion.
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