And he'll raise you one school district

Following Mayor Hahn's opening bid of three appointees to the L.A. school board, Antonio Villaraigosa came back Thursday and bid up the pot, saying whoever is mayor should have final power over the Los Angeles Unified School District. The result, says the Times:

In a major shift in their education strategies, both mayoral candidates now say the next mayor of Los Angeles should have unprecedented control over the city's ailing public schools.

But a fair number of LAUSD schools aren't even located in Los Angeles — including San Fernando High School, where city council president Alex Padilla starred in baseball not too long ago. How many people in West Hollywood or South Gate, to pick two cities covered by the LAUSD, or unincoporated areas such as East L.A., will want their schools controlled by a mayor they can't vote for? They do get to vote for the Board of Education.