Posted on 07/09/2026 6:38:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Los Angeles Unified School District faces “severe” indications that it will be insolvent by November 2027 — falling $231 million into the red and unable to make payroll — county analysts have concluded, setting up a 45-day deadline for the school board to amend their budget or face losing significant future authority over spending decisions.
The county has appointed a “fiscal expert” to work with the district to eliminate the projected deficit. If that effort falls short, county authorities will appoint an official empowered to overturn school board spending decisions, according to the letter sent to L.A. Unified.
The July 2 notice, from county education office Supt. Debra Duardo to L.A. school board President Scott Schmerelson, said the district’s recent budget adoption “erodes confidence” in its decision-making. The county attributes the crisis largely to union contracts it repeatedly warned L.A. Unified officials the district could not afford. The projected annual cost of the union settlements and employee raises is well over $1 billion a year.
“They have some serious financial concerns that they need to address,” Duardo said in an interview Thursday. “It’s very serious.”
The letter formally issues LAUSD a “Lack of Going Concern” determination, meaning the district may not be able to meet its obligations in the 2027-28 and 2028-29 school years. It is a step the Los Angeles County...
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Maybe the Los Angeles Unified School District should hire more supervisors and more DEI consultants.
That’s what a big school district near me did. And they’re doing just fine!
Oh, wait. That district is a huge mess, a huge and unfixable mess.
So never mind.
Interesting recurring relationship between liberalism, high taxes, and budgets teetering on insolvency.
Robots can clear this up. A lot of unemployed though.
They spend billions of dollars each year and turn out students that can’t read, do simple math an know nothing of history, civics or science.
IOW, perfect Democrats.................
They got what they voted for.
Will this affect retirement payments?
Good and hard
Most people in Kentucky are aware of the disaster that is called the Jefferson County School District. AKA Louisville / Jefferson County. Last I saw they were 180 million dollars in the crapper and throwing out smoke and mirrors about how they were going to fix it. They spent millions of dollars on a commission a few years ago that told him how bad it was and then they went on the way they were. And now.....
Like LA it is unfixable. It needs to be burned to the ground and started over.
Most people outside Kentucky don’t realize the Jefferson County school system is massive. I believe, but not positive, that it is the second largest in the country. And if not it’s very close to that.
Or hire AI robots and reboot the whole education system.
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