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Why Race Matters in Today's LAUSD School Board Election

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Students arrive at a Los Angeles Unified school in December 2015. (Ringo Chiu/AFP/Getty Images)

There’s a runoff election today for the Los Angeles Unified School Board's District 5. Though 90 percent of District 5’s students are Latino, both the candidates in the race are white women. Jackie Goldberg and Heather Repenning rose to the top of a pool that included seven Latino hopefuls. Whoever the winner is will tip the demographics of the board to majority white: four out of the seven members will be Caucasian.

Guest: KPCC Education Reporter Kyle Stokes

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