Frank Lara
Community Organizer
Community Organizer
Proposes doubling California’s education budget, plans free childcare and universal preschool, and opposes diverting public funds to private education.
Supports community schools wraparound services, champions integrated student support in community schools, and advocates for school-based after-school programs.
Proposes doubling California’s education budget, taxing large corporations and wealthy Californians, and ending corporate tax breaks.
Supports unionizing charter and private school employees, opposes union-busting in higher education, and advocates union representation in every school.
Calls for fair wages for educational staff, supports wage increases for early childcare workers, and calls for unionizing charter and private school employees.
Supports expanded arts and music programs and backs arts opportunities through community schools.
Supports expanded ethnic studies curriculum and fair special education assessments; would ban police/ICE from campuses.
Opposes police and ICE in schools and supports school resources addressing root causes.
Would implement free universal childcare and pre-K, and backs tuition-free public college and job training.
Opposes Newsom’s Department of Education restructure and defends independent public education oversight.
Would prohibit ICE raids on school grounds and advocates for Opportunity for All campus jobs.
Support comes largely from educators, school workers, labor, and local public officials, pointing to broad confidence in classroom-grounded leadership. The endorsement base includes teachers, paraeducators, social workers, school board members, and a major San Francisco teachers union, suggesting strong trust from people closest to public schools and students.
Lara has experience in the union and knows what is needed in classrooms.