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The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) faces a financial crisis due to budget deficits and large-scale layoffs after approving over $1.2 billion in teacher raises despite warnings from the LA County Office of Education about potential financial consequences. Additionally, costly settlements for sexual misconduct lawsuits, declining enrollment post-COVID lockdowns, and leadership issues have exacerbated the district's financial difficulties. The article argues that new leadership is urgently needed to address these problems, criticizing union demands and state policies like Governor Newsom’s AB 218 law as significant contributors to the crisis.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-08,
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Story summary
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the nation’s second-largest school district, is facing a severe financial crisis that could force it to cut thousands of jobs over the next three years. The California Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team warned LAUSD in June 2023 that its fiscal health is at “high” risk due to projected structural deficits and potential insolvency by 2027–28 if immediate corrective actions are not taken. United Teachers Los Angeles (UTA), the largest stakeholder within the district, disputes this evaluation as biased against educators' needs in a high-cost city. LAUSD's deficit was already nearly $200 million, and the district is considering cutting about 6,000 jobs after agreeing to over $1.2 billion in raises for teachers, which were negotiated to avoid a strike earlier this year.
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You’ve heard that California students lag behind the rest of the nation in math.
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students → hear → math
It turns out LA teachers aren’t good at math, either — which is how they turned a billion-dollar raise into big layoffs.
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they → turn → layoffs
As the California Post has reported, the LA Unified School District (LAUSD) is almost insolvent, and will have to cut some 6,000 jobs.
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District → report → jobs
The crisis comes just months after the school board caved to the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) union and agreed to over $1.2 billion in raises.
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board → come → raises
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The surrender helped the district avoid a strike that the union had cynically planned for April, the middle of the school year.
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union → help → year
It was a threat that, if carried out, would have hurt the working families that rely most on public schools.
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that → carry → schools
Months before that crisis, it was already clear that LAUSD was running short of money.
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LAUSD → run → money
The district was already suffering from a deficit of nearly $200 million, and was already considering layoffs.
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district → suffer → layoffs
A “smoking gun” letter reported first by the California Post showed that the LA County Office of Education (LACOE) had written a letter to every board member, warning them of a budget explosion if they approved the raises in the union deal.
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they → report → deal
The board went ahead anyway.
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board → go → ?
The other problem is the lingering effect of Gavin Newsom’s disastrous 2018 law, AB 218, which effectively eliminated the statute of limitations for sexual misconduct lawsuits going back decades.
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which → linger → lawsuits
LAUSD, like school districts and local governments, was forced into massive settlements and payouts.
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LAUSD → force → settlements
The district has already authorized $750 million in borrowing to pay for the lawsuits, and the final bill could reach $1 billion.
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bill → authorize → billion
This year Newsom signed another bill, SB 577, that raised the standard for proving sexual abuse in these cases, but bowed to the legal lobby in refusing to cap damages.
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that → sign → damages
The district has also been suffering from declining enrollment — a legacy of the COVID era, when the union pushed for lockdowns, and state leaders complied for a year.
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leaders → suffer → year
And the district suffered a leadership crisis this year when LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho was suspended following FBI raids on his homes and office.
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Carvalho → suffer → homes
The failure starts at the top — with Newsom’s bad laws and failed COVID policies.
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failure → start → laws
But board members who indulged the unions — and left-wing obsessions like slashing the LA School Police Department — bear the brunt of the blame.
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who → indulge → blame
New leadership is needed, and it’s needed now.
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it → need → ?
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