LAUSD gets $6 million in grants to help with school reform

12-16-2009

By Connie Llanos/Los Angeles Daily News

The Los Angeles Unified School District has received more than $6 million in grant funding this year to pay for 13 new executive positions designed to help reform local schools, according to district documents released Tuesday. Most of the funds come from two foundations. The Wasserman Foundation, founded by entertainment mogul Lew Wasserman, gave $4.4 million to LAUSD, and the Walton Foundation, started by Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and his wife Helen, contributed $1.2 million. Officials said the fundraising effort is part of an overall push to continue education reform even as the district faces a massive budget deficit that could leave more than 5,000 people out of work next year. But none of these funds can be used to plug the district's budget hole, officials said. (more...)

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