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LAUSD taking on new deficits
- 09-21-2010
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By Connie Llanos/Los Angeles Daily News
Just a week into the new school year, Los Angeles Unified officials are already mired in budget woes and have just three weeks to figure out how to erase the $1.1 billion deficit projected over the next three years. Thousands of employee layoffs, program cuts and larger class sizes are being discussed as the school district lays out a plan for closing a $446 million gap in 2011-12 and a $700 million hole in 2012-13. "We are already in a situation where we are down hundreds of employees and have a shortened school year ... It is a very problematic way to run the nation's second-largest school district," Deputy Superintendent John Deasy said. (more…)
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