LA school board early results show win for union opposed to charters - The Washington Post

LA school board early results show win for union opposed to charters - The Washington Post

Good news likely for union opposing charters in L.A. school board vote

This is an update to a story I posted last weekend about crucial school board races in Los Angeles, the country’s second-largest school district.

Four of the seven seats on the Board of Education of the Los Angeles Unified School District were on Tuesday’s ballot. The key issue in the races: charter schools — and whether voters would elect a board that would expand these schools in the district or a board that wouldn’t. The shift of one seat would make all the difference in this regard.

More than $7 million was poured into the races, most of it going to three candidates who are pro-charter, and some of the races turned nasty, with charges of anti-Semitism in one and false charges of impropriety in another.

School board races are ho-hum, right? Not in Los Angeles, where big bucks and attack ads are flying

So what happened? CONTINUE READING: LA school board early results show win for union opposed to charters - The Washington Post