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Lawrence Torres
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Lawrence Torres was a member of the Pasadena Unified School District school board in California, representing District 6. He assumed office in 2015. He left office in 2020.
Torres ran for election to the Pasadena Unified School District school board to represent District 6 in California. He won in the general election on March 10, 2015.
Biography
Torres works as a teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District. He started working there in 1986 and currently works at a school for nontraditional students. Torres has master's degrees in curriculum development and educational administration from Harvard University and the University of California at Los Angeles. He has two daughters, one who currently attends school in the Pasadena Unified School District and another who graduated from the district.[1][2]
Elections
2015
Three of the seven board seats on the Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education were up for primary election on March 10, 2015. A general election would have been held on April 21, 2015, if no candidate had received a majority of the vote.
The incumbents from Districts 2, 4 and 6 were up for re-election, but none of them filed to run. Three candidates, Roy Boulghourjian, Evan Dagger and Marcela Rojas, filed to run for the District 2 seat. The District 4 election featured candidates Patrick Cahalan and Sheryl Turner. Candidates Sandra J. Siraganian and Lawrence Torres ran for the District 6 seat. Boulghourjian, Cahalan and Torres won election to their seats in the primary election. Each received more than 50 percent of the votes cast in their districts.
This election was the first time the seats from Districts 2, 4 and 6 were elected by district. Prior to 2012, board members represented a specific seat but were elected at-large. The seats from Districts 1, 3, 5 and 7 switched to by-district elections in 2013.
Results
| Pasadena Unified School District, District 6 Primary Election, 4-year term, 2015 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan |  Lawrence Torres |
57.8% | 1,770 | |
| Nonpartisan | Sandra J. Siraganian | 42.2% | 1,294 | |
| Total Votes | 3,064 | |||
| Source: Pasadena City Clerk, "Election Results: PUSD," accessed March 20, 2015 | ||||
Funding
Torres reported $24,648.00 in contributions and $8,485.00 in expenditures to the Pasadena City Clerk’s Office, which left his campaign with $16,163.00 as of March 5, 2015.[3]
Endorsements
Torres received endorsements from the following organizations:[4][5][6][7][8]
- Los Angeles County Democratic Party
- California Teachers Association
- United Teachers of Pasadena
- Armenian National Committee of America, Pasadena Chapter
- San Gabriel Valley Tribune
- Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Smart Voter, "Board Member; Pasadena Unified School District; District 6 Voter Information," accessed February 11, 2015
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedforum - ↑ Pasadena City Clerk's Office, "Viewing filing activity for Torres, Lawrence," accessed March 9, 2015
- ↑ Los Angeles County Democratic Party, "Endorsements," accessed February 11, 2015
- ↑ United Teachers of Pasadena, "UTP Recommends Mayoral, City Council, and School Board Candidates," January 27, 2015
- ↑ Asbarez.com, "ANCA-Pasadena Announces Endorsements for Mayor, City Council and School Board," February 20, 2015
- ↑ San Gabriel Valley Tribune, "Boulghourjian, Cahalan, Torres for Pasadena schools: Endorsement," February 25, 2015
- ↑ Pasadena Star News, "Thousands spent on Pasadena council, school board races," March 6, 2015
| 2015 Pasadena Unified School District Elections | |
| Los Angeles County, California | |
| Election date: | Primary election: March 10, 2015 General election: April 21, 2015 |
| Candidates: | District 2: • Roy Boulghourjian • Evan Dagger • Marcela Rojas District 4: • Patrick Cahalan • Sheryl Turner District 6: • Sandra J. Siraganian • Lawrence Torres |
| Important information: | What was at stake? • Key deadlines • Additional elections on the ballot |
