[DennisR]

I do not think the $30 billion could be correct. The entire state of California has a “budget” of about $100 billion. So LAUSD’s is about 30% of that???

And assuming that the approximately 4,000,000 L.A. residents foot the entire $30B bill, that would be about $7,500 per resident. Hm...

These numbers need to be verified.

[DumpsterDiver]

I do not think the $30 billion could be correct.

I agree with you. The article states that the budget for L.A. city is $6.5 billion per year and that sounds about right. I've read that LAUSD's annual budget is larger than the city's, but I'm sure it's not $30 billion.

These numbers need to be verified.

I'm too lazy to do that right now. ;^)

[paul51]

I do not think the $30 billion could be correct.

It looks as though he is including 20B of long term construction costs

[gracesdad]

It appears the operating budget for this year is $19.8 billion. LA is also building a pile of new schools, I believe.

[connell]

I asked the author about it, and this was his reply:

I read that LAUSD’s operating budget for 2007 was $11 billion this year.  I haven’t found a new link for it.  Their budget was reported at $13.367B in 2005 (page 34) and their construction bond was $19.2B, until it was raised this year.

Ask the inquiring freeper to save the links ASAP.  LAUSD has a way of killing links like these before challenging my numbers…  I was surprised to see the $19B link back up – it’s been dead for a few months…