Cash-strapped LAUSD releases dire three-year plan

I guess it is time for either the State (bankrupt) Government or the Federal (would you buy a used car from these guys?) Government to step in and take over that the LAUSD Board and bureaucrats have thoroughly mucked up?

When enrollment is will be down some 85,000 students since the District's all time high count, can we all see where this is going? Fewer services for fewer students in the District.

Bigger is certainly proving to be true to being better as far as LAUSD is concerned.

Maybe we all need to stock up on some supplies and just close California for a week or two and see what happens.

They care about saving jobs.. really. 3 of the board members showed up late & came in together laughing. L

California got screwed over by the California Lottery. When they were on the ballot, they said 1/3rd of the money would go to schools. What they didn't tell us was that it won't really help schools because the government will give the schools that 1/3rd, but will remove the same amount from their budget, so effectively the Lottery didn't help the schools. It helped politics. The Lottery is also arguably a source for the recession. The wrong people are playing the lottery. Money they should be used to feed families or fund college is being thrown away into legalized gambling. The Lottery has got to go away.

LAUSD student enrollment has decreased by 7.9% since 2003. During the same period, the number of teachers has increased by 2.6%.

Apparently Ramon Cortines choked up twice as he spoke to board members yesterday ... once when he noted the budget went against his "core beliefs" and again for when he realized it violated his "values".

What are those beliefs and values, Mr. Cortines? The idea that the LAUSD (arguably the most inefficiently run school district in the United States) be allowed to spend money without regard to need or economic conditions? Boo hoo...

You know that it's very difficult working for the school mafia. The administrators are idiots and the board members are the criminals. Teachers teach illegal immigrants, drug babies, ADHD and violent students. Please don't blame the teachers for today's problems. My principal works four days a week and 3 hours per day. Does LAUSD do anything about his attendance-No! It's because he and the office manager are Mexicans. They both hire their relatives and cover each other's crime. They cheat the school district out of thousands of dollars. And here is the real crime-the Ramon Cortines knows about it. The School Mafia covers up each other's crime. Down with LAUSD! We need REFORM!

Teachers should be first on the list in pay and keeping their jobs, over police, fireman and especially celebrities. What a sad world we live in where sports figures and celebs get paid outrages money and teachers get paid dirt Sh**t. We don't like to think that teachers are what helps to form our children and this worlds futures. Im not picking on celebs and sports figures but the differences in pay and what they do are so drastic. Teachers need to be recognized more and their jobs need to be ensured more stable then many careers out there.

Angry LAUSD teacher wrote:

You know that it's very difficult working for the school mafia. The administrators are idiots and the board members are the criminals. Teachers teach illegal immigrants, drug babies, ADHD and violent students. Please don't blame the teachers for today's problems. My principal works four days a week and 3 hours per day. Does LAUSD do anything about his attendance-No! It's because he and the office manager are Mexicans. They both hire their relatives and cover each other's crime. They cheat the school district out of thousands of dollars. And here is the real crime-the Ramon Cortines knows about it. The School Mafia covers up each other's crime. Down with LAUSD! We need REFORM!

I have heard so many of these types of stories from LAUSD teachers. The big elephant in the room concerning racism is not the evil white conquerors. It is people - including students - of Mexican descent.

I should clarify: the most race-MINDED group of people are Mexicans. That does not mean all Mexicans are racist, there is just a general tendency to think in terms of race first rather than some sort of political philosophy. I am a substitute teacher in the South Bay and I have experienced this first hand. I know a couple of brothers who fit into this category. The older of the two once ventured: "Maybe we should let all the Mexicans into the United States", and "Maybe we should kick everybody but Mexicans out of California", or most recently "We should turn communist because then everybody's EQUAL." Mind you, this young man was not speaking with any sort of anger - these are just things he's heard at home or from relatives and friends. After some initial heated arguments a couple years ago, this young man and I are on quite friendly terms now. I have patiently explained to him the position of many mainstream American on illegal immigration, wage-depression, and other things. I just tried to be a model of a decent American adult. I think it's worked a little bit - those two lads will be fully-assimilated Americans in no time!

Anyway, the budget cuts discussed basically signal and apolyptic end to public education in the state of California. Take the money away from the foreign banks and the Pentagon - we need it more!

I meant to say: " ... an apocalyptic end to public education ..."

Once you get up to 35-40 students per period at the middle school and high school levels, meaningful education is DONE. Get your kids into private schooling, or some kind of tutoring to supplement their public school experience.

LAUSD now wants a parcel tax. Just what LAUSD needs, more money to spend on the wrong things. LAUSD’s track record is beyond disgraceful on spending.

LAUSD does not deserve any more money. In the short term, the Superintendent, the downtown administration, and the Board of Education members need to be replaced.

In the long term, LAUSD must be obliterated with each school becoming a charter school answering to the state standards not to Big Brother.

http://www.examiner.com/x-3311-LA-Public-Educ...

CFO Megan Reilly is to be commended for reducing the waste at LAUSD. Having worked there I see the waste everywhere and everyday from 5 custodians talking in a circle for hours while expecting teachers to leave their classrooms spotless for them, to office staff just twittling their thumbs and thinking they are superior to teachers. Replace office staff with automation, computers and robots ( they'll probably have more personality) and replace the custodial staff with a private contractor. Oh, and why does LAUSD have it's own police force? So that the public wont find out how many students are being raped by their fellow students while administrators do nothing. Replace the LAUSD Police force by contracting out to the LAPD and then the public will know all the horrors that occur at LAUSD schools.

California was and is a great example of Democratic ideas and polotics. You cannot be everythig to everyone. High taxes or tax the rich never works. What we need is a Democratic party that understands cutting costs.

Get rid of the illegals. That will fix the problem in one action. Start requiring proof of citizenship each fall.

CFO Megan Reilly is a heartless cow with no mind for what is going on. Fine she trimmed some waste and fat, but she is shielding the downtown office from drastic needed cuts and rather looks to the classroom. Why doesn't she waddle in there and teach for a year. She would be chased out. I say she gets rid of all spending accounts and credit cards for board members and the superintendent. She then gets rid of housing stipends for top positions (I mean do you really need a housing stipend if you make more than 50K). From there, they should all pay for their own transportation and cell phones. Then cut the unnecessary assistants who take off at 3 pm on a Friday or take 2 hour lunches. Then she could sack her own lazy butt

Yeah right lets see if it works. The school system needs major help.