Vowing to fight "immoral" reductions in state funding, LAUSD's chief has crafted a complex strategy that would defer millions of dollars in cuts until next year - when programs like adult and early-childhood education could be gutted - and use the courts to block the disruption of student busing.

The California Department of Financial is set to announce today whether the state has generated an additional $4 billion in revenue. A shortfall would trigger up to $2 billion in cuts to social services, universities and public schools, including $188 million for Los Angeles Unified.

"It's unconscionable, it's immoral, it's hard to understand," district Superintendent John Deasy said of the cuts included in the budget passed by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown. "It's beyond anger. It's disbelief."

While districts like Glendale and Las Virgenes Unified plan to use their cash reserves to back-fill cuts in their