This is the last of two articles profiling the candidates running to represent the residents of LAUSD’s Board District 3.

This is the first of two articles profiling the candidates running to represent the residents of LAUSD’s Board District 3.

One school demands payment to access records while another stations armed guards at a board meeting. Both continue to receive public funds.

Students at North Valley Military Institute claimed they were victims of “abhorrent child sex abuse”. Was anyone listening?

Dare I say that Thanksgiving is based in racism? I dare. It is. Growing up, my mom always did it up on Thanksgiving (and I loved her for it) and for the longest time, I believed it was a day to give thanks, we all did.

Confronted by evidence that the charter school industry is not fully serving children with special education needs, will the LAUSD act?

Yes, of course. Vilifying whiteness is destructive. Instead, we (whites) need to recognize the historical, structural, and embedded implications of ‘whiteness' so we're able to work through them and create a transformed identity as white people committed to equality and social change.

The “Board Meeting Accessibility to the Public” proposal would move start times of LAUSD Board meetings so that more parents could attend.

Nick Melvoin's Fire Sale Continues: The “School Performance Framework” was supposed to give parents more data. Instead, it manipulates information so charter schools can more easily take classrooms from LAUSD students.

Nick Melvoin's Fire Sale Continues: The “School Performance Framework” was supposed to give parents more data. Instead, it manipulates information so charter schools can more easily take classrooms from LAUSD students.