Posted on 03/09/2017 4:41:20 AM PST by george76
LAUSD .. schools are under-enrolled.
"There are places where we have schools that are basically four blocks away from each other — and at a time, that made sense," Rodriguez says. Now, he says, "Buildings built for 1,000 kids may have something like 400.
"It's expensive."
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Today, LAUSD's enrollment is around 514,000, a number that the district estimates will fall below half a million by 2018. But L.A. Unified's costs have not gone down. They've gone up. This year's $7.59 billion budget is half a billion dollars more than last year's.
The nation's second largest school district is facing a looming fiscal crisis, one that could have devastating consequences for the city.
"Everyone just hopes they can keep the ship afloat for a while and something will happen to change the vectors," says former state treasurer Bill Lockyer.
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"One of the most disturbing things was, as they've lost 150,000 students, they have not adjusted the size of their workforce," he says. "In fact, they've increased the size of their workforce. They're adding staff. That is completely unsustainable. I realize schools are not a business. But you can't keep adding costs when revenue is declining."
Today, the district has more than 60,000 employees, fewer than half of whom are teachers. School board members were shocked to hear, in a report by the superintendent in May 2016, that LAUSD's administrative staff had grown 22 percent over the previous five years. Over that same period of time, the number of teachers had dropped by 9 percent,
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The cost to the district of paying for its retired employees' pensions, is expected to balloon over the next few years, by hundreds of millions of dollars.
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a cumulative $1.5 billion shortfall by the start of the 2018-19 school year.
(Excerpt) Read more at laweekly.com ...
LA schools are cesspools
Cost gone up? Teacher pensions? Time to consolidate.
LA is already an unmitigated disaster.
So they are spending about 150k per student. Are their ACT scores up?
Well, it’s quite simple. 1 in 4 pregnancies in California is aborted, and the rate in LA is even higher. More abortions means less children.
Number of students go down and costs go up?
Something is seriously wrong there.
More so that usual, I mean.
I bet the LAUSD and the teacher’s union supports planned parenthood.
The traffic in LA is dangerously low and we must do all we can to increase it
yep- and from the article:
514,000 students
Over 60 Thousand staff! with a 22% increase over the last 5 years!
but they LOST 9% of the Teachers!?? Ha Ha must have needed more union organizers
Not enough American children it means. Plenty of Anchor babies though.
The Number of Children in L.A. Is Shrinking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
What child would want to live in L.A.. What parents would want to raise children there?
The karmic suck is so bad there, one simply spins in a vortex of delusion, political correctness and misogyny. Anyone who wants to raise a child in LA should be required by the uber state to have a license.
Try Wyoming instead.
Re: “It has been reported that the LAUSD spends 1 BILLION $$$ on illegal alien children every year.”
The Center for Immigration Studies just released a report that 23% of USA public school students are the children of immigrants (legal and illegal).
In 1990, it was 11%.
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