Four are vying to replace Garcia, who faces term limits after more than 15 years. Challengers face an uphill battle in two other races.Voters in District 2 — which encompasses downtown L.A., Los Feliz, Highland Park, Boyle Heights, El Sereno and East L.A. — have two good choices:, the executive director of East L.A. advocacy group InnerCity Struggle; and Rocio Rivas, policy deputy to school board member Jackie Goldberg.
Voters can’t go wrong by picking either candidate. But Brenes has a slight advantage over Rivas. She has actively worked for years to bring a sense of urgency to improving educational outcomes in under-resourced schools that had low expectations of their Black and Latino students. She was one of the major forces behind the district’s equity funding index to send more money to schools with the most educational challenges. In a move that seemed less well thought out, she also pushed successfully for the district to require all students to take the full roster of college prep courses and get at least a C in all of them in order to graduate.
is a substitute teacher in the school district who has good ideas about forming partnerships with businesses and artists in the community to bolster school programs. But he has little to offer regarding the yawning gaps in improving educational outcomes.Voters in District 4 — which includes Hancock Park, Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, Encino, Tarzana and Woodland Hills — don’t have inspiring options.
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