When Los Angeles high school students get a chance to spend $1 million or more on a political campaign, that’s pretty interesting, right? I thought so, and managed to get myself invited to a meeting of L.A. Students for Change. And that one candidate, incumbent Steve Zimmer, is a target of charter school proponents, which is where the million dollars came from, with former Mayor Dick Riordan as sugar daddy. Shallman wanted to know why I didn’t attend the meeting of L.A. Students for Change before writing the column. “I realize you don’t like charter schools, but many if not most of these students don’t attend charter schools,” Shallman said in an email.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 22, 2017 13:00 UTC