2024 LAUSD Elections

School Board Candidate Looks To Take A Step Backwards

Former LAUSD Board Members Tamar Galatzan and Mónica García brought the district the iPad scandal and MiSiS crisis. Now they back Dan Chang.

“The LAUSD wasted $1.3 billion on a controversial iPad program that is now the subject of an FBI criminal probe.”

– California Charter School Association (CCSA)

Images taken from Dan Chang’s campaign website

In 2014, I jumped headfirst into LAUSD School Board politics. Frustrated with the District’s refusal to provide our daughters with the Special Education services their teachers agreed they needed, I listened to my wife’s urging that I run for a seat on the Board. Not having paid attention to the workings of this body, I dedicated myself to learning all that I could and soon became a regular at meetings held at the LAUSD headquarters on South Beaudry Avenue in downtown Los Angeles.

It did not take me long to realize that my representative on the Board, Tamar Galatzan, was a huge part of the problem. As her constituents expressed their concerns to the Board, she openly ignored them, sharing snacks and chatting with…