LAUSD
What it really costs to run an LAUSD school
May 26, 2010 Filed in: Budget &
Finance
Column:
Louis Pugliese, Daily News IN June, once again taxpayers will be
asked to ante-up in a parcel tax for the financially and
academically bankrupt LAUSD - the money-sucking bureaucratic
nightmare that should have disintegrated long ago and gotten out of
the business of running schools. It's high time that Los Angeles
Unified School District comes clean on the real costs to run a
school - without the added cost of the district administration as
the toll collector. Taxpayers, parents and teachers have the right
to know what operating a school would take without the district's
bumbling bureaucracy, fees, consultants, waste and "encroachments."
Of course, they'll never do that. So maybe it's best we just do it
ourselves...
Parcel tax defeat a call for reform
June 18, 2010 Filed in: Budget & Finance
| Elections
Column: Mike Stryer, Daily News WHY would so many LAUSD teachers - who
theoretically stood to gain so much from the proposed Measure E
parcel tax - celebrate its decisive defeat last week? For the
simple reason that many teachers, together with large numbers of
voters, no longer will tolerate the continued financial
mismanagement by Los Angeles Unified School District. Voters have
clearly communicated that LAUSD should not ask for more money until
it implements meaningful financial reform...
Landmark ruling on teacher layoffs
May 14, 2010 Filed in: Litigation | Unions
Column: John Festerwald, The Educated Guess
- A Superior Court judge
has served notice to school districts statewide that the seniority
rights of teachers do not trump the fundamental right of students
to an equal opportunity for a good education. Los Angeles Superior
Court Judge William Highberger issued a preliminary injunction
Wednesday preventing any teacher layoffs for budgetary reasons at
three Los Angeles Unified middle schools where large numbers of
teachers have been given pink slips…