Jackie Goldberg, holding hands with wife Sharon Stricker, is sworn in as L.A. school board member on May 21, 2019, by retired Judge Teresa Sanchez-Gordon.
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Jackie Goldberg, the president of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s school board, announced earlier this month that she will retire in December 2024 after completing her current term.
Goldberg has worked in public service for more than four decades, starting as a teacher in the 1960s, and won her first LAUSD school board election in 1983. In 1994, she was elected to the Los Angeles City Council, and she represented District 45 in the California Assembly from 2000 to 2006. She returned to the school board in 2019.
Through it all, Goldberg says she has remained an educator at heart and that she has learned new things from her students, whom she also credits with expanding her taste in music.
“LAUSD is filled with the most…
