Author: A Martínez

NPR’s A Martinez asks Los Angeles School Board member Nick Melvoin how deadly fires have harmed schools and the students and families who rely on them. A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: Every school in the country’s second-largest school district remains closed today. The fires that have killed at least 10 people and reduced thousands of structures to ashes in and around Los Angeles have also destroyed or even badly damaged at least eight schools in the district. On the line with us now is Nick Melvoin of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education. He represents District 4, which includes…