Endorsement: Sherlett Hendy Newbill for Los Angeles Unified School Board District 1
LA TimesVoters in Los Angeles Unified District 1, which includes much of South L.A., Mid-City and Koreatown, need an experienced and responsive person to fill the open seat of retiring school board member George J. McKenna III. The best choice is Sherlett Hendy Newbill, who spent decades at Susan Miller Dorsey High School in Baldwin Hills as a basketball coach, teacher and dean of students, among other jobs, before McKenna hired her last year as his education policy advisor. Newbill has criticized the school board’s 2021 decision to remove school police from campuses without a clear plan to keep students safe, and wants each campus to decide for itself. While McKenna voted no on the school board’s plan to ban cellphones on campus, Newbilll supports the policy after seeing how the overuse of phones contributes to bullying, fighting and distraction in class and mental health problems among students.
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