Melvoin Watch

The Charter School Industry Puts Bigotry Front and Center

Nick Melvoin’s supporters couldn’t dispute Jackie Goldberg’s qualifications for the LAUSD School Board, so they attacked her ethnicity.

“Appointing a non-Latino candidate like Goldberg to the seat, even temporarily, ‘is definitely not in the spirit of the law. It would seem contrary to what LAUSD’s own commission did’ when it drew the district.”

- Political Consultant Mike Trujillo

LAUSD Board Member George McKenna Questions LA City Clerk Holly Wolcott

Speak Up is a pro-charter group that was formed in the Palisades on the west side to support Nick Melvoin’s candidacy for the LAUSD Board but was disguised as a way that “parents could join together and push for education that puts kids first.” However, the conduct of Speak Up members prior to and during Tuesday’s Board meeting was meant to cause division in a way that should never be tolerated in front of our children. In a missive released on August 20, they opposed the resolution by “Valley Republican Scott Schmerelson” (Schmerelson is not registered as a Republican) who sought to appoint former Board member Jackie…