Changing School Board Makeup?

Most school board seats are at large - everyone votes for candidates and the top votegetters get the seats. This tends to concentrate power in the more affluent parts of the community since they have the leisure and acumen to run for the low-paying positions and the affluent are far more likely to be registered and vote. People tend to vote for those like themselves so the affluent elect the affluent. This might change with a lawsuit talked about here:

http://voiceofsandiego.org/education/article_fe0a13a2-58c1-11df-9e5f-001cc4c03286.html

This could be a sleeper. It has the potential to shake up some big districts more than any discrimination lawsuit.