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Contest tightens for LAUSD school board seat in San Fernando Valley; school bond well ahead

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Your guide to the LAUSD District 5 school board race: Griego vs. Ortiz

The District 5 race is a contest between candidates with valuable but different professional backgrounds in education. Local 99 wanted its own candidate — one not so closely aligned with the teachers union — and chose Ortiz, even though, as a longtime school counselor, she was an active member of the teachers union. The union — joined by many parents …

Endorsement: Karla Griego for Los Angeles Unified School Board District 5

Voters in Los Angeles Unified School Board District 5 have a choice on the Nov. 5 ballot between Karla Griego, a special education teacher, and Graciela Ortiz, a district administrator. Her priorities include increasing district accountability and transparency over budgeting, contracts and charter schools, expanding the services schools provide to children and their families and continuing to invest in the …

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How mega-spending and alleged scandals could influence LAUSD school board elections

L.A. school employees from unions representing teachers and non-teaching workers rally together prior to a strike last year. As two leading Los Angeles school board candidates grapple with blows to their campaigns — antisemitic tweets for one and an investigation that temporarily removed another from her counseling job — outside groups continue to flood races with spending to win influence …

LAUSD candidate under district investigation, removed from school counseling job during probe

Graciela Ortiz poses for a portrait in front of Miles Elementary School in Huntington Park in December. Los Angeles school board candidate Graciela Ortiz has been removed from her job as an L.A. Unified counseling administrator pending a confidential investigation, school district officials confirmed, leading a school employees union to withdraw its endorsement of her for the March 5 election. …

ECATEPEC, Mexico — On a November afternoon, Mónica Citlalli Díaz left home in a sprawling suburb of Mexico’s capital and headed to the school where she’d been teaching English for years. Dilcya García, who leads Mexico state’s prosecutor’s office on gender violence, said the issue is part of the cement of the social structure: “Violence against women is very complicated …

Parents have new back-to-school list amid COVID, year three

Esmeralda Marquez, right, with her 2-year-old sister, Ruby. “We need to really be thinking about the long-term impact this kind of stress has on our children’s mental health.” Esmeralda Marquez, 11, wears her new school uniform in East Los Angeles. “We funded an attendance counselor last year and never received one,” said one Los Angeles Unified School District teacher who …

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As school districts nationwide struggle to hire and retain teachers amid a shortage, Los Angeles Unified Supt. In a statement, United Teachers Los Angeles President Cecily Myart-Cruz said the district’s initiative is another sign that it needs to do “everything they can” to retain educators and improve teaching conditions during an “unprecedented shortage that’s reached an emergency level.” “We need …