Rare LAUSD open seat in South Bay, Harbor Area draws five contenders
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Patricia Castellanos Mike Lansing Sound The gallery will resume inseconds Lydia Gutierrez (Courtesy Photo) Silke M. Bradford (Courtesy Photo) Tanya Ortiz Franklin (Courtesy Photo) Show Caption of Expand Drawn by an open seat for the first time in 16 years, five candidates have lined up to represent the southern-most district in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Among the hottest of many longstanding issues facing the District 7 winner and the rest of the seven-member school board is the role of charter schools, which moved front-and-center after teachers held a six-day strike in early 2019. But there are also questions about how to pay to attract and retain teachers. The Post LAUSD,...