How mega-spending and alleged scandals could influence LAUSD school board elections
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 over the nation's second-largest school system.
Four seats, a majority of the seven-member Board of Education — are on the ballot for the election that ends March 5. The top two finishers in each contest will be on the ballot in November.
Late campaign turbulence in two competitive races has complicated the picture.
For more than a week, Kahllid Al-Alim, running for the District 1 seat representing much of South L.A. and southwest L.A., has been dealing with the revelation that he retweeted and "liked" on social media posts that promoted antisemitic content, glorified guns and celebrated pornographic images.
He spoke about his social media activity again Tuesday in remarks that seem to stake out a different position than what he stated in a series of apologies.
