‘We’re not happy with the way things are’
By Emily Alpert/Voice of San Diego
The San Diego Unified school board primary is often sleepy and overlooked, assumed to be an easy win for incumbents. But voters upended that idea in the Tuesday primary, putting one school board member in a neck-and-neck race and threatening to oust another from the race completely. Katherine Nakamura trailed behind middle school math teacher Kevin Beiser and is still battling for second place with businessman Stephen Rosen. She trailed Rosen by just 59 votes Wednesday, with roughly 160,000 ballots still to be counted in all races across the county. Nakamura is in jeopardy of losing altogether, because only the top two contenders move on to the November election. (more...)