2024 LAUSD Elections

LAUSD Candidate Forum: PROP-39 Co-Locations

How would these candidates protect students who are negatively affected when public schools are forced to share space with charter schools?

Carl J. Petersen
Dialogue & Discourse
4 min readSep 21, 2023

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“The current implementation of PROP-39, which considers rooms used for Special Education Services as ‘empty’ and potentially reallocates these classrooms to charter schools, is a concerning practice that needs reform.”

– BD3 Candidate Richard S. Ramos

Photo by Dan Dennis on Unsplash

There are still two months before candidates for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) School Board need to begin collecting signatures so that they can appear on the 2024 ballot. So far, 22 Candidates have registered their campaigns with the Los Angeles Ethics Commission, allowing them to begin fundraising. This includes nine candidates in Board District (BD) 1 [A], seven in BD3, three in the fifth district, and three in BD7. You can find your Board District on this website.

With the local news media having largely abandoned any ongoing comprehensive coverage of public education…

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Carl J. Petersen
Dialogue & Discourse

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