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D’Artagnan Scorza

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D'Artagnan Scorza
Prior offices:
Inglewood Unified School District school board Trustee Area 5
Years in office: 2015 - 2020
Education
High school
Morningside High School
Bachelor's
University of California, Los Angeles
Graduate
University of California, Los Angeles
Military
Service / branch
U.S. Navy

D’Artagnan Scorza represents Seat 5 on the Inglewood Unified School District Board of Education in California. He was first elected to the board in the general election on April 7, 2015.[1]

The Inglewood Unified School District was taken over by the state of California and bailed out of near bankruptcy in September 2012.[2] During the takeover, the district's board of education was stripped of its powers, leaving members in an advisory capacity only.[3]

Biography

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Scorza is the executive director and founder of the Social Justice Learning Institute. He is a U.S. Navy veteran of the Iraq War. He earned a bachelor's degree in religion from the University of California at Los Angeles, a second bachelor's degree in liberal studies from National University and his doctoral degree in education from the University of California at Los Angeles.[4] Scorza previously worked for the Inglewood Unified School District. He worked under the first special trustee appointed by the state after the district was taken over in 2012.[5]

Elections

2015

See also: Inglewood Unified School District elections (2015)

Four of the five seats on the Inglewood Unified School District Board of Education were up for general election on April 7, 2015. Seats 1, 3, 4 and 5 were on the ballot.

Incumbents Rene Talbott, Henry Brown, Graciela Patino and Johnny J. Young representing Seats 1, 3, 4 and 5, respectively, were up for re-election. Talbott, Brown and Patino were appointed to their seats by Inglewood Unified State Trustee Dr. Don Brann on January 15, 2015, to serve until the election determined the next members.

Margaret Richards-Bowers defeated fellow candidate Dionne Young Faulk for Seat 1, and candidate Melody O. Ngaue-Tuuholoaki ran unopposed and won Seat 3.

Incumbents Rene Talbott and Graciela Patino faced challengers Margaret Evans and Darius Leevy for Seat 4. The Seat 5 race featured incumbent Henry C. Brown and challenger D’Artagnan Scorza. All three incumbents were ousted from their seats. Scorza won Seat 5, and Evans won Seat 4 after she defeated Patino in a runoff election on June 16, 2015.

Results

Inglewood Unified School District,
Seat 5 General Election, 4-year term, 2015
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Nonpartisan Green check mark transparent.pngD’Artagnan Scorza 61.2% 3,360
     Nonpartisan Henry C. Brown Incumbent 38.8% 2,133
Total Votes 5,493
Source: City of Inglewood, "General Municipal Election Tuesday, April 07, 2015: Official Results," accessed April 28, 2015

Funding

At the time of this election, the Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk did not publish school board candidate campaign finance reports online. Ballotpedia staffers requested this information, but the only free method of viewing the files was at their office.

The Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk targeted the end of 2018 to make school board candidate campaign finance reports available online for free. From that point forward, Ballotpedia began including campaign finance data for Los Angeles County school board candidates.[6][7][8]

Endorsements

Scorza was endorsed by the following organizations and elected officials:[9][10]

Scorza was also endorsed by several community members. A full list of his endorsements can be found here.

Campaign themes

2015

Scorza highlighted the following priorities on his campaign website:

“ My Priorities for Inglewood School District

Inglewood Unified School District has faced a myriad of challenges over the past few years. To ensure that our children have an educational environment that prioritizes their needs now and in the future, Dr. Scorza will fight to:

Ensure a Solid Fiscal Recovery
Work with State leadership to develop a fiscal recovery plan that ensures the district ends each fiscal year with a positive cash balance. D’Artagnan will fight to restore local control and return fiscal responsibility to our schools. It’s important that our community has a representative who will advocate to return our school budgets to order so that we can end the State control of our District.

Grow Academic Success
D’Artagnan will build a district that provides every student the opportunity to learn in an environment where they will thrive. He will work to restore excellence in education by supporting well-paid, highly qualified teachers and staff to make sure that our children have the resources they deserve. For example, combining science, technology, engineering and math + art (STEAM) to give our students hands-on, project based learning experiences that connects them to college majors and real career pathways.

Improve Facilities
D’Artagnan chaired the Inglewood School Improvement Measure GG campaign and secured $90 million in funds to renovate our crumbling schools and expand access to a safe, healthy and quality education. He will prioritize the $90 million in school improvement funds to modernize classrooms, replace our aging schools and ensure that our students have access to learning technologies required to succeed in a 21st Century Economy.[11]

”
—D’Artagnan Scorza's campaign website (2015)[12]

Recent news

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See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ City of Inglewood, "General Municipal Election Tuesday, April 07, 2015: Unofficial Results," accessed April 8, 2015
  2. ↑ Los Angeles Times, "Brown signs bailout for Inglewood schools," September 15, 2012
  3. ↑ 89.3 KPCC, "Nearly 2 years after state takeover, Inglewood schools still bleeding red ink," May 13, 2014
  4. ↑ LinkedIn, "D'Artagnan Scorza, Ph.D.," accessed April 2, 2015
  5. ↑ Los Angeles Wave, "Nine candidates seek Inglewood school board seats," March 26, 2015
  6. ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Campaign Finance Reports," accessed July 2, 2014
  7. ↑ Daniel Anderson, “Email communication with Brenda Duran, Los Angeles County Public Information Officer," October 7, 2016
  8. ↑ Abbey Smith, “Email communication with Brenda Duran, Los Angeles County Public Information Officer," January 2, 2018
  9. ↑ Los Angeles Democratic Party, "Endorsements," accessed April 2, 2015
  10. ↑ D’Artagnan Scorza, "Endorsements," accessed April 2, 2015
  11. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  12. ↑ D’Artagnan Scorza, "Priorities for IUSD," accessed April 2, 2015
2015 Inglewood Unified School District Elections
Los Angeles County, California
Election date:April 7, 2015
Candidates:Seat 1: • Margaret Richards-Bowers • Dionne Young Faulk
Seat 3: • Melody O. Ngaue-Tuuholoaki
Seat 4: • Incumbent, Graciela Patino • Incumbent, Rene Talbott • Margaret Evans • Darius Leevy
Seat 5: • Incumbent, Henry C. Brown • D’Artagnan Scorza
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