2024 LAUSD Elections
LAUSD Candidate Raquel Villalta on PROP-39 Co-Locations
How would Raquel Villalta protect students who are negatively affected when public schools are forced to share space with charter schools?
“Every school must have a designated space to provide services to our Special Need[s] students.”
– BD3 Candidate Raquel Villalta
Raquel Villalta is running against incumbent Scott Schmerelson in LAUSD’s Board District 3, which covers most of the western San Fernando Valley. As part of my ongoing Candidate Forum series, Villalta was asked five questions about PROP-39 co-locations. For the introduction to this subject along with answers from other candidates, please see the article LAUSD Candidate Forum: PROP-39 Co-Locations.
It should be noted that these responses were received after the Board meeting on September 26, 2023, where the resolution proposed by Goldberg and Rivas was passed by the LAUSD School Board by a vote of four to two (Kelly Gonez did not record a vote). At this meeting, the Director of the Charter School Division, José Cole-Gutiérrez, revealed that, despite what has been told to public…
