LA Archdiocese Sues LAUSD [Los Angeles Unified School District] Over Denial of Federal Funds for Low-Income Catholic School Students

Daily Breeze ^ | 12/18/21 | City News Service

[marshmallow]

Saying it wants to correct four years of inaction by the Los Angeles Unified School District regarding denial of federal Title I services for historically eligible low-income students attending Catholic schools, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is suing the nation’s second-largest school district.

In the Los Angeles Superior Court petition brought Thursday, the archdiocese stated it had no choice but to pursue a legal remedy on behalf of students and families who have been harmed in communities such as Watts, South and East Los Angeles.

In 2018, a disagreement arose between the LAUSD and the archdiocese over how to calculate which Catholic schools qualify. The archdiocese maintained the district abruptly changed the process, sometimes more than once in a year, then excluded every school where paperwork was considered deficient.

The petition seeks a court order directing the district to “engage in timely and meaningful consultations with (the archdiocese) regarding the process by which the (archdiocese) schools’ Title I allocation was calculated.”

[Falconspeed]

“the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is suing the nation’s second-largest school district,” because the failed leaders in the Arch of LA have nothing better to do.