RSS
Home
LAUSD budget: the unanswered questions
Print
Email
RSS
Subscribe
The Los Angeles Unified School District passed a three-year budget.
Teacher to student ratio in the 2009-2010 school year will be:
24 to 1 in kindergarten through third grade, up from 20 to 1;
38 to 1 in middle school, up from 36 to 1;
42 to 1 in some high school classes, up from 40 to 1.
How can they be certain that it won’t go much higher?
What will it be for fourth and fifth grade?
A 5% salary reduction for all staff beginning in 2011 was proposed.
With the cost of living and inflation, and low teacher salaries, how much will the salary reductions really affect teachers? How many teachers will have to get a second job or leave the profession?
Class sizes increases could continue with Kindergarten at 29 to 1 ratio and proposed half days
How will money be saved? Will the teachers work half days or have two daily Kindergarten classes?
A commenter to the Los Angeles Daily News article of June 23, 2009 wrote:
“LAUSD is wasting 80 million dollars a year on high priced consultants in the Facilities/Construction Branch. This has been going on for 6 or 7 years now.”
Another commenter wrote:
“Why don't LAUSD cut the consultants and use district employees and stop sucking the tax payers dry for consultants that don't do anything but get paid a pretty penny to do nothing?”
Another wrote about the cuts on school campuses as opposed to those outside the schools:
“The only administrators that DID get cut were the ones at the school sites (Asst. Principals), handling discipline, parent complaints, and trying to keep the campus calm. What will happen next year when there is 1 administrator for schools with 1000+ students in gang infested areas?”
We still have not seen any evidence of administrative, bureaucratic, and program cuts outside of the schools. We still have not seen any evidence of outside contracts, lobbyist positions, or rental offices being eliminated.
LAUSD is acting like a business. The lowest employees are eliminated, a few middle management employees are let go for show, and the top administrative fat cats keep on truckin’.
Where is the lottery money being spent?
Related Articles:
Comments
