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Breaking down LAUSD's school board elections
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Mar 1, 2013
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Breaking down LAUSD's school board elections
Based on the media coverage and celebrity endorsements this LAUSD school board election has received, you’d think sitting on the seven-member panel was one of the most glamorous jobs in LA. And it is … if your idea of glamour is working crushing hours to wrangle a behemoth district that’s trying to reinvent itself amid warring factions, for less than $50,000 a year.
LAUSD District 2 Board candidate Annamarie Montanez is a teacher and advisor at an adult education school in El Sereno.
LAUSD District 2 Board candidate Annamarie Montanez is a teacher and advisor at an adult education school in El Sereno.
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Montañez for School Board 2013
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Based on the media coverage and celebrity endorsements this LAUSD school board election has received, you’d think sitting on the seven-member panel was one of the most glamorous jobs in LA. And it is … if your idea of glamour is working crushing hours to wrangle a behemoth district that’s trying to reinvent itself amid warring factions, for less than $50,000 a year.

Based on the media coverage and celebrity endorsements this LAUSD school board election has received, you’d think sitting on the seven-member panel was one of the most glamorous jobs in LA. And it is … if your idea of glamour is working crushing hours to wrangle a behemoth district that’s trying to reinvent itself amid warring factions, for less than $50,000 a year. KPCC's Vanessa Romo breaks down the race.