Final candidates certified in race for L.A. Board of Education
A much-anticipated face-off between Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the city’s teachers union began to take shape with the final certification Monday of candidates for the March school board elections. Four of the seven seats on the city’s Board of Education are up for grabs.
The current majority is allied more or less with Villaraigosa, who publicly cut longstanding ties this month with United Teachers Los Angeles, calling the union the chief obstacle to school reform in the city. The union, in turn, has defended its record.
In District 1, covering much of south and southwest Los Angeles, the union has endorsed two-term incumbent Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte. She will be opposed by civil rights advocate Eric Lee, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Los Angeles. While the mayor ha
