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Campaign Funding Floods LAUSD Races

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Catherine Cloutier |
February 17, 2011 | 9:57 p.m. PST

News21

Graphic: Catherine Cloutier
Graphic: Catherine Cloutier
This story is part of an ongoing special series produced by USC Annenberg News21 in partnership with KCET's SoCal Connected. Ten new media reporters explore the intersection of Big Money and Poltiics from L.A. City Hall to Sacramento to Washington D.C.

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The Los Angeles City Council races aren't the only game to watch in the March 8 citywide elections. In fact, they aren't even attracting the biggest bets.

Independent expenditures in the Board of Education races are about to top $1 million, compared with just over half a million raised in the fight for a city council seat.


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