Your last-minute guide to the L.A. Community College District elections
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Set us as preferred The Los Angeles Community College District is the largest community college district in the nation, serving 200,000 students with a budget of $10 million.Voters will elect three members to the board.Steven F.VeresVeres is a member of the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees and works as a state political adviser.
He says he has worked to strengthen job training programs and improve graduation rates and wants to make college as affordable as possible.Robert PaynePayne taught at L.A.Mission College, worked on movie crews and ran an import business.
He would focus on low enrollment growth.He also wants to make community colleges “cheaper, faster, better” in part by offering students more training for specific jobs and less expensive online textbooks.Kristina IrwinIrwin serves on the general advisory board at Santa Monica College.
She previously served on the board of trustees at Palisades Charter High School.She wants to offer students more tools to succeed in college and to establish “preentry” programs in every local high school to better prepare students for community college.Adriana CabreraCabrera served as president of the Central Alameda Neighborhood Council and co-founded Empowering Youth in South Central.
She wants to make student services easier to navigate and to strengthen financial aid and other support, including for food, housing, child care and mental health.Roy PayanPayan has suspended his campaign.California Five candidates are vying for Seat 2 on the board of trustees for the Los Angeles Community College District, where they will oversee some 200,000 students and an annual budget around $10 billion.
Here is your voter guide.Nancy PearlmanPearlman is an environmentalist who served on the LACC Board of Trustees from 2001 to 2017 and taught part time at all n...