
Following his campaign kickoff, Andrew Lachman consolidated broad community support for his race for school board. The kickoff was attended approximately 25 friends and supporters such as Vice Mayor Dan O’Brien, Councilman Freddy Puza, CCUSD Board Members Triston Ezidore and Brian Guerrero as well as former Mayor Jim Clarke and Culver City Federation of Teachers President Ray Long, reflecting the diversity of support for Lachman’s message of putting students and educators ahead of politics.
In the ten days after the kickoff event, Lachman received the endorsement of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party, the LA/OC Building Trades Council, Board of Equalization Member Tony Vazquez, State Senator Lola Smallwood Cuevas, West Basin Water District Board member Scott Houston, the Culver City Democrats United Democratic Club and former CCUSD President Anne Allaire. Lachman fell just short of also getting the 60% needed for Culver City Democratic Club endorsement, receiving 52 percent of the vote of the club.
“I am honored to have the support of so many community leaders who want to revive the Culver City Compact to put our schools ahead of the politics of division and discord,” said Andrew Lachman, whose campaign has focused on student support issues like fixing classrooms, security and infrastructure, offering honors classes and career technical education, assistance and mental health support for students facing barriers, and greater coordination with teachers and parents.
A parent of a sixth grader at Culver City Middle School (who also attended El Marino and El Rincon Elementary as well). Lachman has served on the CCUSD Equity Advisory Committee, Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) Committee and Bond Feasibility Committee where he advocated for greater communication and input from teachers and parents. Lachman has been a business, privacy and ethics attorney in his own firm and in-house for over fifteen years and taught business law as an adjunct professor at Woodbury University. He served on the Culver City Education Foundation board, and was Legislative Director for Congressman Ted Lieu and Staff Consultant to the California Legislative Joint Committee on the Arts.
Andrew Lachman has raised nearly $47,000 for the race and receiving endorsements from a broad set of community and elected leaders including Congressmembers Ted Lieu and Sydney Kamlager-Dove, eight current and former CCUSD school board and four former Culver City mayors, as well as parents and activists from across the city.
The campaign website is at www.lachmanforccusd.com where voters can find information on Lachman’s positions, endorsements and sign up for his mailing list.
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