Endorsement: Dan Chang for LAUSD board in District 3

Not everyone lives within the Los Angeles Unified School District. Fewer still live within the LAUSD Board of Education District 3, in the West San Fernando Valley.

But all of us in L.A. County are affected by what goes on — the successes and failures — in the sprawling district’s schools. It’s the second-biggest district in the nation. Where goes the LAUSD, so goes public education in the nation.

So all of us have a stake in the district’s future. And that’s why all of us — especially...