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The Lady With Large Vocal Capacity Has Sung

Digging into the numbers as the Los Angeles County Clerk posts the 2024 LAUSD School Board run-off election’s final results.

Carl J. Petersen
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4 min readDec 2, 2024

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The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

– John F. Kennedy

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Three weeks after the November 5, 2024 election, Los Angeles County released its final update of the vote totals on Tuesday. Unlike the primary election where the vote leader in two races changed as votes were counted, the results in this year’s races stayed relatively steady. Sherlett Hendy Newbill, Scott Schmerelson, and Karla Griego led when the first results were released on November 5, 2024, and they were all declared winners of their races when the counting was finished. Supporters of Public Education will retain the majority in the new term.

The largest variance between the initial and final results was in Board District 1 (BD1) where Newbill saw her substantial lead fall by four and a half points to 71.07%. This is surprising as there was very little activity in the race. The Charter School Industry’s chosen candidate, Didi Watts, had been eliminated in the primary election, and…

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Carl J. Petersen
Carl J. Petersen

Written by Carl J. Petersen

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

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