Los Angeles’s School District Went From Morally To Financially Bankrupt

  American Thinker    

"She lamented all the woke nonsense being shoved down her throat. She was tired of hearing all the race nonsense. She was tired of learning about the LGBT agenda and sitting through all the sexual diversity displays." . . . 

"Los Angeles Unified School District is having a hard time paying the bills necessary to teach the kids, so it’s struggling to keep its doors open. Clearly, the administrators, bureaucrats, and the elected Board of Trustees don’t handle addition and subtraction all that well. The district is failing basic math, and not just for the students.

"According to ABC News Los Angeles, LAUSD is on the brink of bankruptcy:

"The Los Angeles Unified School District could run out of money within about a year and is showing severe signs of financial distress, according to county education authorities.

"The nation’s second-largest school district, which serves more than half a million students, faces possible insolvency, prompting the Los Angeles County Office of Education to take action.

"The district’s last student population estimate listed 497,105 enrollees. That’s LESS than half a million. Even ABC News is having number troubles.

"What happened, and what could happen if the district doesn’t get its act together?

"Officials cited massive union contracts estimated to cost more than $1 billion annually, along with declining enrollment and reduced state funding, as factors contributing to a growing deficit and the possibility of state oversight.

“Worst case scenario is the state takes over, and this goes under receivership under the state, and that takes a long time to get out of, and it is really hard to maintain any control over curriculum, over class size,” Bacall said.

"I am shocked—SHOCKED (not!)—that the school district is going belly up, and the parents are taking their students out. The warning signs had been blaring for years." . . . More...