Immediate And Peripheral Vigilance: LAUSD’s Schoolboard Election … Then Covid19
A running section will follow below with information and links on Covid-19.
In the meantime a primary election was held less than three weeks ago in LA County that is still being actively counted. Results continue to be updated twice-weekly with (2,101,601) ballots comprising more than 38% of the over 5.5m registered voters counted. As of March 17, 2020 there are 64K ballots left to count. A small subset of these will include yet-outstanding ballots from LAUSD schoolboard voters.
Representation on the LAUSD schoolboard matters all the more now under threat of pandemic than ever, since the unusual circumstances expose enormous issues regarding Education policy. The protective closing of classrooms forces into a limelight matters of online learning, homeschooling, equity and teaching and the role of Big Tech vs human practitioners in guiding, mentoring, instructing and raising our young. Front and center as the District is forced to all-online learning are issues of context and practice – is public education fundamentally industrial training or contextual critical thinking (and in what proportion)? These questions intrinsic to District policy will inform future learning as a function of what is being developed right now. By virtue of its size and the imperative of the moment, the LAUSD school board’s policies and actions with regard to blended learning will affect public education for years to come.
The board races in LAUSD1 and LAUSD5 cover southeast, northeast and south central LA. Incumbents George McKenna in LAUSD1 and Jackie Goldberg in LAUSD5 won their respective elections outright with more than CONTINUE READING: Immediate And Peripheral Vigilance: LAUSD’s Schoolboard Election … Then Covid19 – Los Angeles Education Examiner
