2024 LAUSD Elections

LAUSD Candidate Janie Dam on Student Safety

She responds to questions about the safety of students including one about a Notice of Violation issued to Granada Charter School.

Carl J. Petersen
Age of Awareness
Published in
5 min readDec 31, 2023

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“I will optimistically remain in the race and will give it my all.”

– BD3 candidate Janie Dam

Janie Dam (Photo from the candidate’s website)

After meeting with the Los Angeles City Clerk’s office, Janie Dam now agrees “that they followed the guidelines set out by the Election Code” when disqualifying the signatures that she had collected to appear on the March Primary ballot. She believes that “too many of the registered voters who signed [her petition] had moved, and did not re-register under their new addresses.” Dr. Dam hopes that a change will be made to the election code so that a signature will still count “if the signer still resides in the same district.”

While Dr. Dam’s name will not appear on the ballot she is continuing her candidacy as a write-in candidate. This will require her to repeat the process of collecting signatures on a new petition.

In past iterations of the ongoing Candidate Forum series, Dr. Dam has answered questions about PROP-39 co-locations, Special

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Carl J. Petersen
Age of Awareness

Parent, special education advocate and former LAUSD School Board candidate. Still fighting for the children. www.ChangeTheLAUSD.com