By City News Service
Dec 16, 2020
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Kelly Gonez today became the youngest-ever female president of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education.
Gonez, 32, is also the first of the millennial generation and one of only four women of color and one of three Latinas to lead the board that sets policy for the nation s second-largest school district, which serves a student population that is currently 80% Latino or Black, according to LAUSD officials.
“I want to thank my colleagues for this honor, and I look forward to working with each of them and Superintendent Austin Beutner and his team on behalf of the students of Los Angeles, Gonez said after she was unanimously elected to the post by her board colleagues.