Politics & Government
LAUSD Board Approves Budget, Saves Afterschool Programs
The over 6 billion dollar budget for the next fiscal year saves afterschool progarms and much early childcare programs.
A $6.03 billion budget for the 2012-2013 fiscal year was approved Thursday by the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of
Education.
The vote was 6-1.
The budget closed a $390 million deficit the district faced entering the
fiscal year, which begins Sunday, according to Tom Waldman, the district's
director of media and communications.
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The board's 6-1 vote, with South Bay representative Richard Vladovic dissenting, capped an 11th-hour scramble to salvage the Beyond the Bell after-school program. It operates from 3-6 p.m. weekdays at every elementary and middle school in the district.
About $4 million will come from money the district had set aside to put a parcel tax on the 2013 ballot--although district officials are still considering that plan--and the balance from an unexpected surplus in preschool revenue in the state budget that Gov. Jerry Brown signed on Wednesday.
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Superintendent John Deasy credited teachers and other unionized
employees for choosing to cut their salaries by working fewer days to allow the
district to reduce spending significantly.
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