| Dear Friends and Family,
First, I cannot thank each and every one of you enough for all you’ve done to support me over so many years. And I have another personal request for each of you because you are all important in the struggles for full funding for public education and for progressive goals in civil rights, human rights, immigration rights and addressing the global climate crisis.
This request is not for my candidacy.
It is a request for the immediate future of the LAUSD school board. In the March 2020 primary election, there are two school board candidates for the LAUSD School Board that I am asking you to support. They are current Board Member Scott Schmerelson and Board District #7 candidate Patricia Castellanos.
Unless BOTH are elected either in the March primary in the November general election, my ability to bring progressive change will be severely restricted. Right now there is a 4 to 3 pro-public education majority on the school board. But all four are up for election in 2020 and we don’t have a vote to spare.
Luckily, Board Member Dr. McKenna has no opponent. I have a fairly weak opponent, but charter proponents have already spent $250,000 in attack ads against me.
So the only chance the conservatives have of retaking the majority is to defeat Mr. Schmerelson, or by electing someone other than Ms. Castellanos in Board District 7.
PLEASE HELP ONE OR BOTH OF THESE EXCELLENT CANDIDATES WIN THEIR ELECTIONS. HERE IS HOW:
SEND MONEY (up to $1200) to each of these two as follows:
Scott Schmerelson for School Board 2020
Contribute online at www.Scott4lausd.com
Patricia Castellanos for School Board 2020
Contribute online at www.Patriciacastellanos.com
VOLUNTEER TO PHONE OR WALK PRECINCTS as follows:
Scott Schmerelson- Contact Brent Smiley
Email: Campaign@scott4lausd.com
Phone: 818.324.8327
Patricia Castellanos- Contact Albert Ramirez
Email: info@patriciacastellanos.com
Phone: 310.864.3383
I’ll be calling soon to see if you can help me keep a progressive majority on the LAUSD Board of Education.
With warm regards,
Jackie |
Diane Ravitch's blog 
great thanks!!
almost 500k against jackie but we can do an update with you midweek
thanks
On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 8:03 AM Diane Ravitch’s blog wrote:
> dianeravitch posted: “Jackie Goldberg, the dynamic progressive on the Los > Angeles school board, send this request for help: FROM THE DESK OF > JACKIE GOLDBERG ” >
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Thank you for this. Jackie Goldberg rocks! I will do my part. I will help rally the troops in my neighborhood. My family in the great Scott Schmerelson’s district tells me they are receiving lots of flyers from the charter cabal. It’s time to give, so Scott can continue to give back, and forward.
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LCT, look forward to meeting you on Feb 9 at the Central Library in LA
Proudly sponsored by UTLA!
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Me too!
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Looks like it’s time to dust of the signs from last year’s strike, and hit the streets. Let’s go, LA! Let’s go, UTLA!
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Worth a review- the political connections of the superintendent of Los Angeles Catholic schools, appointed this summer. Formerly, he was head of a charter school. His predecessor in the Catholic job was a Pahara Fellow.
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School Choice – the California Catholic Conference posted at its site a call for tax credits.
Tax credits operate as a vehicle that defunds government. The USCCB and state Catholic Conferences’ political involvement in influencing state and federal policy is only ignored, at peril.
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