Voters to cast ballots in LAUSD board race

Voters will decide today's runoff election between Bennett Kayser and Luis Sanchez for the District 5 seat on the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education.

Kayser is a former seventh-grade science and health teacher at King and Irving middle schools. He also served as director of information technology for the Pasadena Unified School District.

Sanchez is the executive director of a nonprofit focused on improving education.

The city Ethics Commission reported last week that independent campaign groups had raised an unprecedented $1.2 million on mailers, phone calls and newspaper advertisements supporting or opposing the school board candidates.

United Teachers Los Angeles, the union representing most LAUSD teachers has supported Kayser.

The Coalition for School Reform, backed by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and Citizens for Better Schools, funded primarily by Service Employees International Union Local 99, have supported Sanchez.

Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Source: http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_18080469?source=rss

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