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Former Los Angeles Unified School District board member Jackie Goldberg took the majority of the votes against former teacher and mayoral aide Heather Repenning in Tuesday’s runoff election for the Board of Education.

Former Los Angeles Unified School District board member Jackie Goldberg will look to rejoin the seven-member panel Tuesday when she faces former teacher and mayoral aide Heather Repenning in a runoff election.

Los Angeles Unified School District board member Ref Rodriguez pleaded guilty Monday to a felony conspiracy charge and four misdemeanors for reimbursing donors to his 2015 election campaign, and he resigned from the board.

Los Angeles Unified School District board member Ref Rodriguez is expected to admit to the Los Angeles Ethics Commission Monday that he executed a money laundering scheme to further his 2015 campaign.

Nearly a dozen Los Angeles charter school campuses across the Los Angeles Unified School District are at risk of closing if officials do not reach a compromise.

On a 4-3 vote, Monica Garcia was chosen Tuesday as president of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education, replacing Ref Rodriguez, who resigned from the post after being charged with falsifying a campaign finance disclosure form.

One week after being charged with perjury and other felonies for allegedly funneling $25,000 of his own money into his campaign by listing phony donors on a disclosure form, Ref Rodriguez on Tuesday gave up his position as president of the Los Angeles Unified School District board.

A pair of candidates heavily backed by charter-school proponents will be taking over seats on the Los Angeles Unified School District board, potentially signaling a major policy shift in the nation’s second-largest school district.