Michelle Rhee's biggest foray yet
into local politics in California yielded mixed results yesterday as voters in
West Sacramento rejected the school board candidate backed by her education
advocacy group while voters in Los Angeles
handed a victory to one of the three candidates StudentsFirst supported.
Rhee, the former chancellor of Washington, D.C.,
schools who is married to Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, created
StudentsFirst to counter the
power of teachers unions in state and local politics.
The group formed a campaign committee that
supported Francisco Castillo for school board in Washington Unified, the
West Sacramento school district. Castillo works as a spokesman for
StudentsFirst. Voters in West
Sac elected Sarah Kirby-Gonzalez, who was backed by the local
teachers union.
StudentsFirst also supported three candidates for
the Los Angeles Unified school board: Mónica García, Kate Anderson and Antonio
Sanchez. García won the race for District 2, Anderson lost the race for
District 4 and Sanchez is headed to a May 21 run-off against Monica Ratliff
for District 6.
From
The Sacramento Bee. Capitol Alert.
Read more here:
http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/03/mixed-bag-for-michelle-rhee-in-tuesdays-school-board-races.html##storylink=cpy
See prior posts on this topic. Including this one. http://choosingdemocracy.blogspot.com/2013/02/school-reformers-have-it-wrong.html
See prior posts on this topic. Including this one. http://choosingdemocracy.blogspot.com/2013/02/school-reformers-have-it-wrong.html
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