LA School Report covers the 2017 LAUSD school board race: See all 13 candidate profiles Name: Nick Melvoin Board district: 4 Age: 31 Lives in: West Los Angeles Job: Attorney, educator, nonprofit education consultant, LAUSD substitute teacher, volunteer Married: No Children in LAUSD: No children LAUSD schooling: Kenter Canyon Elementary Other education: Curtis, Harvard-Westlake, bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, master’s in urban education...

LA School Report covers the 2017 LAUSD school board race: See all 13 candidate profiles Name: Kelly Gonez Board district: 6 Age: 28 Job: Seventh-grade science teacher at Crown Preparatory Academy in Los Angeles Lives in: Sylmar Married to: Manuel, who works in politics and on policy issues related to transportation, housing, homelessness, infrastructure and workforce development Children: none LAUSD education: No LAUSD...

High school students moderated a forum of the three candidates in the District 2 school board race on Friday night in front of a capacity crowd of 200, with 100 more students waiting to get in. The candidates were asked how they plan to battle Trump administration policies, help underperforming and underprivileged youth, increase the...

LA School Report covers the 2017 LAUSD school board race: See all 13 candidate profiles Name: Lisa Alva Board district: 2 Age: 55 Lives: in childhood home in El Sereno Job: English teacher at Bravo Medical Magnet High School Marital status: engaged LAUSD schools attended: Multnomah Street Elementary, El Sereno Jr. High, Wilson High School...

LA School Report covers the 2017 LAUSD school board race: See all 13 candidate profiles Name: Patty López Board district: 6 Age: 49 Job: community activist in the San Fernando Valley Married: to Juan Lopez, supervisor for an electronic company Children in LAUSD: She has four children who attended LAUSD schools and four grandchildren. Her first three children graduated from San...

LA School Report covers the 2017 LAUSD school board race: See all 13 candidate profiles Name: Imelda Padilla Board district: 6 Age: 29 Job: Community organizer for Pacoima Beautiful, then with the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, and started her own nonprofit Together We Do More, which aims to help middle and high school students start to think...

LA School Report covers the 2017 LAUSD school board race: See all 13 candidate profiles Name: Mónica García Board district: 2 Age: 48 Job: Incumbent, school board District 2. She also has a paid position with the Probation Department, where she works a 4-10 work schedule. Married: No Children in LAUSD: No children LAUSD high school:...

LA School Report covers the 2017 LAUSD school board race: See all 13 candidate profiles Name: Carl J. Petersen Board district: 2 Age: 49 Job: Manages shipping production for start-up company Arecont Vision that supplies security cameras. Married: Nicole Thiroux-Petersen Children in LAUSD: Three stepdaughters who are triplets: one at Granada Hills Charter High School, one...

The four contenders for the District 4 seat on LA Unified’s school board met on Thursday night for the second time, in a forum at Paul Revere Middle School in Brentwood. There were a few zingers, some rather polite versions of sharp elbows and hoots of support from the 150 or so in the audience...

The four candidates who are seeking a seat representing District 4 for the next five and a half years on the LA Unified school board appeared together for the first time Monday night and discussed the district’s troubled finances, teacher tenure, school choice and charter schools. The candidate forum was sponsored by Speak UP, a...