LAUSD’s Insane Deal For $1.2 Billion In Raises
My latest column for the California Post takes a critical look at an insanely unaffordable set of raises for staff in the LAUSD — when the district has no ability to pay it. Layoffs coming?
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A BILLION DOLLAR SOLUTION THAT SOLVES NOTHING
I have a new column up at the California Post on the deal that just “saved” Los Angeles schools — and why it may have made things worse.
Yes, a strike was avoided.
That is the headline politicians want you to focus on.
What they do not want to talk about is the price tag — nearly $1.2 billion a year — and what that means for a school district already in serious financial trouble.
This is not a system with money to spare.
It is a system with declining enrollment, shrinking reserves, growing liabilities, and long-term deficits that are not going away.
And yet, instead of confronting those realities, the political leadership chose a familiar path: spend more, declare victory, and push the consequences down the road.
In the column, I break down what is actually in this deal, why the numbers do not add up, and how Mayor Karen Bass stepped in — not as a voice for taxpayers, but as a facilitator for a politically convenient outcome.
There is a broader pattern here.
This is how California governs: short-term peace, long-term problems.
Eventually, the bill comes due.
It always does.
You can read the full column at the California Post HERE.