After a slow start, the District 4 (Hollywood and Westside) race between School Board Member Steve Zimmer and challenger Kate Anderson is heating up. On Tuesday, Anderson unveiled her first campaign ad on YouTube. Zimmer’s campaign manager, Ari Ruiz, said his campaign team also plans to launch ads supporting Zimmer on YouTube this Saturday. Zimmer...

There were roughly 100 audience members at Thursday night’s School Board candidate forum in District 4, which featured incumbent Steve Zimmer and challenger Kate Anderson. Over all, the event was polite and informative, showing off both candidates’ strengths, stylistic and substantive differences, and their support for Superintendent John Deasy. Anderson, with her twin daughters sitting...

Tomorrow night’s School Board candidate forum for the Westside’s District 4 could be a fascinating event, if for no other reason than it will feature just two candidates — challenger Kate Anderson and incumbent Steve Zimmer — going head to head.  (Jeneen Robinson is registered as a write-in candidate, and was not invited to participate)....

Jeneen Robinson, the youth minister who’s running to replace School Board member Steve Zimmer in the Westside’s District 4, has registered as a write-in candidate, according to the City Clerk’s website. Voters can write-in any candidate’s name on their ballot, but in order for that vote to count, the candidate has to be registered as a...

Jeneen Robinson, the would-be school board candidate for the Westside’s District 4, is meeting with the elections division tomorrow to contest her non-qualification for the March ballot, according to her campaign manager, Kevin Durst. “It’s kind of odd,” Durst told LA School Report. “We turned in 1000 names and only 360 were valid, according to the electoral office. We’re...

It’s not easy keeping track of terms used in LAUSD, including such basics as the geographic “districts” (regions) into which the sprawling district has been divided.  Let’s start with the three districts that are up for grabs in March: District 2 (Light blue) -Central Los Angeles from Larchmont to East LA (includes Koreatown, Downtown, Boyle...

Kate Anderson tells LA School Report that she plans on filing paperwork today to run for LAUSD school board, in District 4, where she will take on sitting board member Steve Zimmer. Anderson currently serves as the Los Angeles director of Children Now and sits on the board of the Mar Vista Community Council.  She had told us previously she was...

Most Angelenos don’t realize it, but the local primary election is just five months away. Even fewer know that in addition the Mayor and City Council, the March 5 ballot will include three school board seats. Three, count ’em, three (out of seven). But why should anyone be paying attention? There aren’t even any candidates...