Your guide to the LAUSD District 1 school board race: Al-Alim vs. Hendy Newbill

The contest for the District 1 seat on the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education matches Sherlett Hendy Newbill, an educator with extensive high school experience, against Kahllid Al-Alim, a longtime community activist and parent.

The winner will replace George McKenna, who is retiring after a long career as an educator and as a school board member since 2014.

The seven-member school board sets policy for the nation’s second-largest school district, which educates about 420,000 students a year and employs some 74,000 teachers, administrators and other staff. The school board is accountable for the district’s $18.4-billion budget. Members also hire and evaluate the superintendent.

District 1 takes in an area that runs west from Koreatown to Mid-City, with one leg stretching to the Westside as far as Palms and another into Baldwin Hills and South L.A.


https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-10-03/2024-california-election-lausd-district-1-al-alim-hendy-newbill-november-voter-guide