Races for four of seven board seats are expected to determine whether union allies or charter school supporters will hold sway on the board.
Bloomfield spent more than $600,000 in support of Duran and more than $744,000 in negative mailers that distorted Goldberg’s record of pushing for increased funding for schools and supporting gun control. Unions spent about $232,000 on behalf of Goldberg, who already was well known in areas of her district north and northeast of downtown. She’s less well known in the cities of southeast L.A. County.
The switch from Rodriguez, the cofounder of a group of charter schools, to Goldberg, a union ally and charter critic, altered the board’s ideological balance. Charters are privately operated public schools that compete with district operated schools for students. Most charters are non-union. in District 3. In this race, one-term incumbent Scott Schmerelson — a retired principal backed by the district’s employee unions — was opposed by charter-backed Marilyn Koziatek, a district parent who has led community outreach efforts at a local charter school.Charter backers spent more than $1.6 million to boost Koziatek and more than $1 million against Schmerelson.
As in District 5, the campaign spending pitted charter ally Bloomfield against the teachers union and its allies. And, as in District 5, Bloomfield’s dollars swamped what either the unions or individual candidates were able to do on their own.
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