The Oakland teachers union has spent big on the campaign, despite a debt it owes the district.
School board candidates Sasha Ritzie-Hernandez and Jorge Lerma are vying to fill a seat to lead the oft-divided Oakland school district. features two candidates, but only one will get a flashy mailer delivered to voters’ mailboxes in the coming days — thanks to a hefty dose of labor spending.
Two-thirds of the outside spending in Ritzie-Hernandez’s favor comes from the political fundraising arm of the teachers union: the Oakland Education Association Political Action Committee. Ritzie-Hernandez and her wife have both worked on the previous campaigns of other union-backed candidates. Despite other strong links to the union in her previous work, the candidate has made clear in interviews that her political judgment on the school board would be her own and not determined by the whims of union leadership.
The teachers union has been a powerful political voice in Oakland, fighting back intensely on planned school closures and declaring a strike earlier this year over progressive policy measures that it wanted embedded in the next labor contract. “We’re hopeful that in the next couple weeks, the district can make sure we’ve dotted all our I’s and crossed our T’s in terms of demanding repayment,” school board President Mike Hutchinson said in an interview.
Hutchinson, the current District 4 representative, received no labor support last November when he won a three-candidate race featuring a union-backed opponent.
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