The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) will vote Tuesday on a spending plan for the 2025-26 school year that runs almost $3 billion deeper than its income, pushing the nation’s second-largest school district deeper into a catastrophic financial spiral.
The crisis stems from a toxic combination of collapsing enrollment — down to just 408,083 students, an 11,000-student drop in one year, according to The74, an education outlet — and unsustainable spending commitments that will exhaust all reserves by 2025-26.
“We’re holding firm on the commitment that we did not lay off any employee this year,” LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said in June 2024, according to LAist. “We will not lay off any employee next year, there will be no furloughs — we are adamant about protecting our essential programs for kids.”
Carvalho did not respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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