LAUSD plans to add 1,000 new campus aides and to buy tablets

“The Los Angeles Unified School District plans to make more than 1,000 new hires to bolster security at hundreds of campuses in a move some critics have called "security on the cheap."

So where is this cash strapped district getting the money?

Did anyone survey the school administrators, school staffs, and parents to see if this is what is best for each school?

One size fits all aides go well with the one size fits all education through texts and pacing plans that are not chosen by teachers.

“The School Construction Bond Citizens' Oversight Committee approved a $50 million proposal to jump-start a program aimed at giving every student a tablet computer.”

“Partial funding of the project will come from voter-approved Measure Y, R and Q bond revenue, all measures that are earmarked for the continued repair, upgrading and modernization of aging classrooms as well as the construction for new school facilities.”

The district will surely take their bids from the most powerful publishers of textbooks in order to keep the publishers happy. Once again they will not ask the teachers to decide upon the best uses of the tablets and to choose the best learning programs for the students.

Decisions made downtown that affect 600,000 students and tens of thousands of school staff members are made by bureaucrats, superintendents, and board members who are not teachers and never visit schools.