Your guide to the LAUSD District 1 school board race: Al-Alim vs. Hendy Newbill
LA TimesMcKenna, the outgoing board member, has been strongly supported by the teachers union — in part because he was unbeatable at the ballot box — and he welcomed the support. But as the district’s only Black board member, he has continued to assert himself on measures to help Black students and to promote school safety by supporting school police. This alignment was a key factor in the union’s early endorsement of him and the heavy campaign spending on his behalf leading up to the March primary election. The union dropped its support for Al-Alim, however, after he came under fire for social media activity in which he liked or reposted content that was antisemitic, glamorized guns or celebrated pornographic images, actions that appear to have taken place from eight years ago to October 2023.
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