Los Angeles School Funding and the “Bait and Switch”
On June 13, 2019, I posted about Measure EE, the proposed parcel tax that was supposed to fund K12 education for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). The measure was not approved, with very few voters showing up to the polls either in support of or in opposition to the measure.
It seems that part of LAUSD’s funding problems has to do with the superintendent and board’s desire to sit on surplus money as well as a remarkable imbalance in overspending on administration (including having to pay the state penalty fees for having excessive administrators) at the expense in adequately paying teachers and hiring enough teachers so that class sizes are conducive to teaching and learning.
In response to my post, Los Angeles teacher, Linda Bassett, offered the following informative, insider commentary in which she discusses a Measure EE-related “bait and switch” (I added links to aid in communicating the backstory):
I am a teacher in UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles). What I see is a bait and switch. When we were striking, our union was calling out the school district for sitting on 1.7 billion dollars. That was an outrageous amount of money to sit on and would go far to help buy support personnel and reduce class sizes.They also called out the billionaires for draining money from our public school system for their union busting, rip-off charter enterprises using public money to line their pockets and that they were going to pass CONTINUE READING:Los Angeles School Funding and the “Bait and Switch” | deutsch29
