November 4, 2020
One incumbent, one newcomer on track to win pivotal school board races in Los Angeles
The next school board will be seated in December and likely have one new face: Tanya Ortiz Franklin, a former teacher.
Elections have a major impact on California education. Voters have passed ballot measures that set the level of state education funding. They banned bilingual education and later reversed that ban. Voters elect the state superintendent of public instruction and local school board members. And they elect governors who have power over school funding, appointing members to the State Board of Education and to the UC Board of Regents and the CSU Board of Trustees.