2024 LAUSD Elections

LAUSD Candidate Janie Dam on Governance

If elected to the School Board for the country’s second-largest School District how would she approach policy making and implementation?

Carl J. Petersen
EduCreate
Published in
4 min readDec 14, 2023

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“The Board may need to develop more specific employment guidelines and evaluation rubrics for the position of Superintendent; and may need to engage teachers, school administrators and parents in the process.”

– BD3 Candidate Janie Dam

Andreas Farmakalidis and Janie Dam (Carl J. Petersen)

Janie Dam’s candidacy for LAUSD’s Board District 3 has suffered a setback with the Los Angeles City Clerk’s office ruling that the signatures she submitted to appear on the ballot were insufficient. However, Dr. Dam is appealing this decision as she indicated in the following statement:

“Some time next week the window will open for me to get an appointment with City Clerk staff to review all the rules applied in validating or challenging each of the nearly 1000 signatures that I submitted.

I am also conducting an investigation based on reports from supporters that someone might have been organizing a scam or…

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Carl J. Petersen
EduCreate

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