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School Board Candidates To Meet In Online Forum

With the balance of power on the LAUSD School Board at stake, Board District 3 voters will hear from Scott Schmerelson and Dan Chang.

“The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.”

– Louis Brandeis

Los Angeles School Board elections, backed by spending from outside billionaires and unions, are the costliest in the country. Expenditures in these races can easily outstrip those that decide seats on the City Council. With the November election still months away, candidates have already spent $2,727,962.81 trying to secure the Western San Fernando Valley’s Board District 3 seat.

Unfortunately for voters, they get very little actual information from all the money that is spent trying to secure their votes. Their text feeds are clogged with unsolicited messages while their phones ring incessantly with push “polls” designed to implant negative…