Victorious LAUSD incumbent vows to keep challenging Deasy - by John Fensterwald
Having presented the Los Angeles School Board election races as a referendum on Superintendent John Deasy’s future, the club of six- and seven-figure donors in Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s Coalition for School Reform may have succeeded in making Deasy’s life more complicated.
Steve Zimmer won a second term in Tuesday’s election despite being outspent more than 4 to 1. Photo courtesy of LA School Report. (Click to enlarge)
For the $3.6 million it raised, the Coalition did end up helping to elect one candidate it supported, Board President Monica Garcia. A second,Antonio Sanchez, is the leader heading into the runoff election later this month. But in the race into which it threw the most money, the Coalition failed to unseat incumbent Steve Zimmer. If a polarized election pushes Zimmer closer to those responsible for helping to get him re-elected – chiefly United Teachers Los Angeles – there may be more uncertainty and new challenges for Deasy.
Zimmer’s 4 percentage point victory over civil rights attorney Kate Anderson left Zimmer feeling “validated” to keep challenging Deasy on some of the superintendent’s priorities: teacher
State’s first career-tech center faces potential demise - by Susan Frey
The superintendent of the state’s oldest regional occupational program is warning that an unintended consequence of the governor’s Local Control Funding Formula could lead to its demise. An official from the Department of Finance says his department will look into the problem. Christine Hoffman, superintendent of the Southern California Regional Occupational Center (SoCal ROC) in Torrance, is...
