LA School Report

With Reform Fervor in the Air, Local School Board Elections See Record Outside Spending This year, huge amounts of money and passion are flowing down the ballot into the school board elections — part of an all-out war over public school reform. KCET See also: LA School Report Late Donations Bolster Pro-Deasy School Board Candidates...

Check out this just-completed chat with LA Times education reporter Howard Blume, which includes news that the state charter association has donated $300,000 to the Coalition for School Reform.   On Monday, LA School Report broke the news that Rupert Murdoch had just contributed $250,000 to the Coalition. *Correction:  The original version of this post...

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Election Day is upon us – and with three School Board races on the ballot this year, LA School Report is here to help you find your polling place. Click here enter your address.  

Outside interest groups have spent $4.8 million so far on the three LAUSD Board races — an increase of $400,000 just over the weekend. So far, UTLA has spent $994,000 on two races — District 2 (East LA) and District 4 (Westside/Hollywood) — but has stayed out of the District 6 (East San Fernando Valley)...

According to LA Weekly‘s Patrick Range McDonald, there’s no doubt that Mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti flip-flopped on the controversial parent trigger mechanism last week. The only thing in doubt heading into tomorrow’s primary vote is whether or not the change in positions — which Garcetti’s campaign described as a “clarification” of his longstanding position —...

New disclosure reports available from LA City Ethics reveal that direct fundraising by candidates — limited to $1,000 per individual contributor —  continues to lag far behind outside fundraising, which is unlimited. One possible interpretation is that candidates are hoping that outside expenditures will be enough to fuel their campaigns.  Another is that candidates are...

District 4 challenger Kate Anderson has Eva Longoria.  District 4 incumbent Steve Zimmer has John Lithgow.  Now, District 2 incumbent Monica Garcia has singer John Legend.

The front section of today’s New York Times includes a big story about the primary day voting for LAUSD School Board that’s going to take place tomorrow. The piece notes that protecting the efforts of Superintendent John Deasy has become a rallying cry for reform advocates such as the Coalition for School Reform, while the...

In a tall office building overlooking Olympic Boulevard, a group of more than a dozen volunteers sat in a circle in a conference room being trained on how to best reach voters on the phone and in the field. One of the keys to the Coalition’s new field campaign is to send volunteers out into...