LAUSD `bloat' draws outcries

Never once does this paper address the reasoning behind publishing an individuals name in any of these salary databases they've concocted(HINT: THAT IS WHAT PUBLIC EMPLOYEES ARE UPSET ABOUT!) It is unnecessary and distasteful.

Don't they know how to shrink a budget?

i thimk that showing how much LAUSD workers make is wrong you guys forget that they pay taxes themselves you talk and write like they dont pay taxes hey all i have to say is beat or join them guess what

All the bureaucrats are overpaid. The teachers union attacks are hypocrisy. LA teachers earn an average of $63K for what amounts to about 8.5 months of work (substracting numerous holidays, vacation days, etc.). I've picked up my niece numerous times from her elementary school between 4 pm and 5 pm. The school is practically deserted. All the teachers' rhetoric about all the hours they put in is grossly exaggerated. Bottom line: teachers, administrators, mechanics, janitors, clerks ... all government employees of the school districts ... are over-paid in both salary, time off, and benefits.

As Californians have continued to throw money at the education bureaucracy, test scores and school infrastructure have declined. My niece tells me she refuses to use her school restrooms because they're so filthy with no security nor privacy. She sometimes has to hold it all day. That's unhealthy.

As I always say -- it's not government that's fully to blame for the problems of of incompetence, high taxes, high costs, failing infrastructure and declining service levels. It can be run properly with reforms that must include: 1) elimination of employee unions from government jobs, 2) heavy penalties for corruption by politicians and bureaucrats, 3) zero based budgeting, 4) balanced budget requirements, 5) penalties for politicians interfering in the individual personnel matters of the bureaucracy, 6) reasonable caps on compensation to bureaucrats and politicians.

It's time to put the citizens and our country over the greed of the government employees and elected officials.

Pay up you filthy citizen scum.

Viva Villagairosa!!!!!!

If you want to publish names and salaries, at least post accurate info! If you can't get it straight, then just post the job title and salary range....
Bad show gentlemen, bad show.

The daily news should post every single public employees salary. I don't see other workes salaries splashed over the news, why single out teachers. The ones who are responsible to make your children make something of themselves?
get real, this is nothing more than an attack on teachers, which you continually do!

The actual names of people being published, as opposed to the job title alone, just amounts to unnecessary animosity between coworkers.

This is not an attack on teachers.
It's reporting.
The teachers and their union have been complaining for years that too much money is being spent outside of the classroom. Now, the public has the opportunity to see where that money is being spent.
Why the outrage?
I could have used the California Public Records Act to retrieve any of this information. I also can information off your voter's registration card. If you are enrolled at a state university or college, I can get your phone number and address -- unless you asked to be removed from a list you probably didn't even know existed.
Stop the whining.
In today's economy, teachers make a competitive salary for providing an important service. Factor the value of the health benefits and retirement benefits into the salary package, and you'll surely see teachers in LA are not underpaid compared to teachers elsewhere. Whether teachers in general are underpaid is another argument.

I know a lot of teachers......none of them support the anti citizen Union or the anti citizen State Democrat dictatorship. All of them agree that our Public Schools are being decimated by design. They can see the result of such unprecedented EVIL each and every day.

Bravo L.A. Daily News! Transparency is what is sorely needed for the people to understand large public bureaucracies. Perhaps the LASUD is "packing" the bureaucracy with "friends & family" of powerful politicians and administrators, it would be interesting to see who is related to whom in the LASUD system. This is not unlike the MLK Hospital fiasco where a lot of friends and family of powerful politicians were hired at outrageous salaries.

Keep on with your investigative reporting!

The funny thing is, Cortinez is one of the administrators that are part of the bloat.

Jac wrote:

The daily news should post every single public employees salary. I don't see other workes salaries splashed over the news, why single out teachers. The ones who are responsible to make your children make something of themselves?
get real, this is nothing more than an attack on teachers, which you continually do!

use the search bar at the top of the screen, if you'd like to see DWP employees salaries, it has already been done. City Hall Salaries, been done. City Employee salaries, done...take a look for yourself, you are not the first, and the argument for leaving an individuals name off the list for privacy concerns has gone ignored since afterall, we seem to owe every breath we take to a taxpayer, don't think for one second that you have actually earned any dollar you have made.

I had a (former) neighbor who was an LAUSD teacher. In the three years we were neighbors, he (quite proudly) never once corrected any papers or tests - that was for his teacher's assistants to do. Instead he left right at the closing bell to go get stoned every afternoon.

It's nice to know that he's probably making more than I do in nine months than I do in a year in a private-sector job once you include the fact that:

He pays no social security tax but will get a better pension than SS provides.

He gets gold-plated health & dental benefits.

He has access to home loans only teachers are eligible to receive: http://www.teachinla.com/salalloc/home_owner_...

And to top it off, For all intents and purposes, he can't be fired.

UTLA and its members get no sympathy from me.

Well its confirmed, The Daily News has exposed more than we know. Its not your senority or title. Classroom assistants making more than the Teacher. 30 year worker making $9000 less than a 6 year employee w/the same classification or less. Thank you Daily News. Time to look at my job differently.

Who u know wrote:

Well its confirmed, The Daily News has exposed more than we know. Its not your senority or title. Classroom assistants making more than the Teacher. 30 year worker making $9000 less than a 6 year employee w/the same classification or less. Thank you Daily News. Time to look at my job differently.

It's good to hear that some of you are earning what you deserve for your performance, or lack thereof, rather than your silly union notion of more seniority equals higher pay.

But at least you admit that the Daily News is providing a public service with this information.

Pigs at the trough.If these inept bureaucrats were not in the LAUSD, they would be sucking off your tax dollars in the welfare system.The whole system should be dismantled.A noncompetitive environment rewards those who are not the best and brightest, but those who know how to "game the system". Disgusting.Your tax dollars at work , folks.

If this is all just about teachers and administration, why did my salary get published? I work in a high school classroom all day as a special education assistant. I co-teach, tutor and assist in every way possible not just the special education students, but the general education students as well. I assist the teacher with his/her duties, provide feedback, contribute ideas and even write or grade tests on occasion. I handle all sorts of problems and act as a go-between when the students are afraid to speak to the teacher. I fix computer problems and frayed nerves. All this, for about 1/3 of what the teachers make. Perhaps we should shave a bit off the top and put it on the bottom. Now that I know what my teacher co-workers make, the next time one of them claims to be "poor" or "have no money" I'll know that it is due to their own inability to keep a budget.

When someone in LAUSD, like my wife, makes 6 figures, they need to show results to prove their worth. I can tell you that the mediation she does between parents, lawyers and schools along with compliance reports demanded by a federal consent degree, has saved the school, taxpayers and parents of special education students millions. Plus, this is not a 9-5 job. She's firing off emails, prepping meeting notes and fielding land line and cell phone calls well into the night and it's not a district cell phone, she doesn't get one. I have the phone bills too prove it.

Publish salaries if you like DN but include what LAUSD staff do to earn their keep, good or bad. Publishing just the salaries and a story on bloat is overwhemingly one-sided.

As a city employee, whose also had his salary published, and a journalist, even we don't broadcast stories that one-sided and damaging.

Wow! I'm never surprised how the cockroaches hate the light of day.

Anyone know if the downtown administrators work 12 months a year?