Rounding Up the Top News
Every week we’ll be rounding up the top education news. Here’s the top news from the last eight days.
Who is funding the LAUSD elections?
LAUSD Board elections are becoming more and more expensive. We’ve already discussed how much of that money is from dark money PAC’s, but over the last week larger, legacy media have taken a look at the mega-bucks that are taking over the LAUSD Board elections.
LAist notes that the record for spending in an LAUSD primary election is at least $5.7 million. That record is being challenged with a couple of weeks left, and the figure of over $4 million spent so far is rising rapidly.
About half of those dollars are from retired Manhattan Beach businessman Bill Bloomfield who is sending out hit pieces against incumbent Jackie Goldberg (LAUSD5) and in the open election in LAUSD7. Bloomfield tells the Los Angeles Times that the Board needs a “fresh directive” to justify mailers that, in Goldberg’s words are “vicious lies.”
It seems that the mailers with vicious personal attacks that strain credulity CONTINUE READING: Rounding Up the Top News – Los Angeles Education Examiner