Local News in Brief : Weintraub to Seek 4th Term on School Board
Roberta Weintraub, Los Angeles school board president and longtime east San Fernando Valley representative, said she will file for reelection to a fourth term today.
Meanwhile, a Sherman Oaks physician said he will challenge Weintraub for the $24,000-a-year post.
Weintraub, 53, said Tuesday that she expects to raise about $100,000 to defend the seat she has held since 1979. She first took office at the height of the anti-busing movement after the recall of former board member Howard Miller.
Weintraub represents the Valley area roughly east of the San Diego Freeway.
“I haven’t lost the interest or zest for the office, dealing with people and their kids’ lives,” she said.
Barry Pollack, 42, has said he will run against Weintraub because she has been in office too long and is no longer effective as a board member.
“The system isn’t working and she is steering the system as board president,” said Pollack, who works as an emergency room doctor at La Palma Intercommunity Hospital in Orange County.
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