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Public Education Supporters Can Breath A Little Easier In Los Angeles

Preliminary results show their candidates will have the opportunity to maintain a majority by defending the three seats they currently hold.

Carl J. Petersen
Age of Awareness
Published in
5 min readMar 6, 2024

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As educators, we recognize that people can learn and evolve through courageous conversations.

– UTLA

Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder Clerk

Before dumping $690,949.34 into the BD1 race supporting Kahllid Al-Alim, one would have thought that United Teachers Los Angeles would have done the basic research into their chosen candidate. Having failed to perform this due diligence they were forced to withdraw their endorsement of Al-Alim when a Twitter post was shared where the community organizer called for an anti-Semitic book to be “MANDATORY Reading in Community Schools…part of the BSAP (Black Student Achievement Plan).

What is not surprising is that the Charter School Industry easily found this information and was holding onto it until it would cause the most amount of damage. The publicly funded private schools showed in the past that they do not mind using anti-semitism if it helps their candidates when they released a widely-condemned

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Age of Awareness
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Carl J. Petersen
Carl J. Petersen

Written by Carl J. Petersen

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

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