Vote no on the LAUSD bond in November and demand better from the superintendent and the uncritical rubber stampers on the school board.
LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho talks at a press conference Tuesday, Sun Valley Aug 27, 2024. The time to seek new investments in any organization is when you’re thinking big, and so is your customer base.
When it’s a school district that seeks more investment, we’re talking public monies. Sometimes the bond measures that are the way districts finance big infrastructure improvements and building new campuses are an absolutely appropriate way to spend tax dollars. When a wave of new students comes along, our society makes a commitment to educating them and keeping them warm, cool and safe.
The drop in student body numbers is not entirely the district’s fault. Demographics plays a big part. But the popularity of private and charter schools did not come from nowhere. While the LAUSD offers some innovative programs and excellent individual schools, it needs to up its game. The simplest reason is that it is clear campuses are going to have to be closed, including school sites that could get bond money. Now is the time to choose the best campuses and prepare to mothball the others. There are still unspent billions from a previous bond measure, including $1.8 billion not even allocated by the board. The head of the district’s Bond Oversight Committee says his group was not even consulted.
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