Sentences with phrase «expensive school board elections»

Nearly $ 2.3 million from wealthy charter school advocates fueled the nation's most expensive school board elections in Los Angeles last spring, but those donors and their contributions were never disclosed to voters until months after the election, a review of records shows.

In the most recent election there, charter school supporters and labor unions collectively spent $ 15 million trying to elect their allies, making it the most expensive school board election in United States history, according to The Los Angeles Times.

The California Charter School Association and their allies poured nearly $ 2.3 million into last year's LAUSD election, helping to make them the nation's most expensive school board election.

It is widely acknowledged that the last LAUSD board election was the most expensive school board election in history.

Remember, this year's Los Angeles School Board race was the most expensive school board election in U.S. history, as the powerful charter lobby ran candidates in an ultimately successful effort to gain a pro-charter majority on the board in this city that is desperately fighting against charter expansion and the subsequent financial strangling of Los Angeles Unified School District.

Not exact matches

It's likely the school board elections will fall along lines of strong charter supporters, such as Melvoin and Garcia, and be hugely expensive.

Backed by billionaire charter interests and fiercely opposed by teachers unions, the two winners of last month's bruising election — said to be the most expensive school board race in U.S. history — will take office in July.

Increasingly, too, school board races have attracted attention and funding from political organizations, such as the prounion and procharter school groups that made the recent Los Angeles school board election the most expensive in history.

That's the view of several charter advocates and close observers of the district, as well as one of the victorious candidates in last week's runoff election, the most expensive school board race in U.S. history.