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Longtime Dorsey High educator Sherlett Hendy Newbill elected to LAUSD board
District 1 Board Member-elect Sherlett Hendy Newbill on election night.
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Voters have elected a longtime high school educator to the Los Angeles Unified Board of Education. Sherlett Hendy Newbill has earned more than 70% of votes counted so far in Board District 1.
The race: Hendy Newbill’s opponent, community organizer Kahllid Al-Alim, conceded the race in an email to LAist. “I'll be reaching out to Sherlett over the weekend to congratulate her,” Al-Alim wrote. In the primary, Al-Alim’s campaign lost a groundswell of support and the endorsement of the powerful teachers union after past social media posts endorsing antisemitic ideas reemerged. “I'll address the antisemitic issues over time and will keep advocating for better public education for all students, as I always do!”
The winner: Hendy Newbill has decades of experience as a teacher, basketball coach, and administrator at her alma mater Dorsey High School. She most recently served as an education policy advisor in the office of retiring Board Member George McKenna. “I've learned that the people of this community, they desperately and honestly want representation from this community,” Newbill said. “It's been an honor to listen to folks as I knock on doors.”
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