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Campaign against Kayser turns negative with charter-funded flyer
Let the negative campaigning begin! An arm of the California Charter Schools Association‘s political action committee has unleashed the first campaign attack with a full color, glossy flyer aimed at District 5 board incumbent Bennett Kayser. The message targets a very specific demographic: Latinos. It features five sad looking brown-skinned kids with their heads in their...
By Vanessa Romo | January 30, 2015
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LAUSD board election ‘debate’ becomes Ref Rodriguez show
It was supposed to be the first debate of the LA Unified school board races, but it wasn’t: Only one candidate showed up. With board member Bennett Kayser and challenger Andrew Thomas pulling out, the floor for the District 5 forum belonged to candidate Ref Rodriguez, who had all the time he liked last night to...
By Craig Clough | January 29, 2015
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Second candidate follows Kayser out of forum for LAUSD board seat
Hours after criticizing LA Unified School Board Member Bennett Kayser for dropping out of today’s District 5 campaign forum, one of his challengers, Andrew Thomas, announced that he, too, is pulling out. That leaves the stage to the only other candidate in the race, Ref Rodriguez, who is promising to attend. The forum is the...
By Vanessa Romo | January 28, 2015
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Rodriguez, seeking an LAUSD seat as more than a ‘charter guy’
This is the next in a series of profiles on candidates running in the March 3 primary for the LA Unified school board. Today’s focus is Refugio Rodriguez, a candidate for the District 5 seat. What do you say to a man who founded a chain of charter schools but insists he doesn’t want to...
By Vanessa Romo | January 20, 2015