Over the last few months, the race for the school board seat in District 4 has touched on many issues: school choice, charters, inequality, teacher pay and benefits, and outside money in politics. But these issues are symptoms of a broader problem.

California is in a fight for our teachers, and Los Angeles is taking center stage. Last week, LA voters sent the race for LAUSD Board in District 4 to a runoff on May 16th. This week, legislators in Sacramento are considering SB 807, the “Invest in Teachers” Act, a bill that would…

According to a 2015 Gallup Poll, only 43 percent of Americans are satisfied with the quality of K-12 education in the United States. In California, nearly half of all voters believe our public schools are in “bad shape”. On March 7th, Los Angeles voters have an opportunity to change that. As one of…

I began my career as an LAUSD teacher at Markham Middle School in Watts. I was hired after a 30 second interview with a principal who wasn’t there when I arrived for work only a few weeks later. When I googled the school to learn more about where I would be teaching the results were both…

Since starting this campaign months ago, I’ve met with thousands of parents across LAUSD’s Board District 4. Parents, like students, are all different — some support charters, some don’t; some support pilot schools, others less-so; some support kids using…