LAUSD superintendent asks board to file suit blocking transportation cuts

12-08-2011

By Barbara Jones/Torrance Daily Breeze

Facing the loss of $38 million to transport students to magnet and special-education schools, LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy said Wednesday he will ask the school board to file suit to block the looming cuts. The California Department of Finance is expected next week to slash up to $1.8 billion from the state's school districts, including $248 million for home-to-school transportation, because of a revenue shortfall. That means Los Angeles Unified would have to chop $38 million from the fund that pays to bus 35,000 students to magnet schools - the backbone of the district's court-ordered desegregation program - and to transport 13,000 pupils with physical, behavioral and development handicaps. "This is the core of our deseg and special-ed programs. These are things we have to do," Deasy said in a phone interview. "I would consider asking the school board for the authority to go to the courts to seek injunctive relief." (more...)

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