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With Costs Rising and Relief Money Gone, LAUSD Taps Reserves to Pay for New Budget
This story was originally published at the LAist The Los Angeles Unified board unanimously approved a $18.8 billion budget that relies on diminishing reserves to make ends meet. “There is a tempest ahead, uncertainty, instability, a threat to public education as we know it,” Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said as he gave updates to the district’s...
By Mariana Dale, LAist | June 26, 2025
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After Homeland Security Agents Visit 2 LAUSD Schools, Members of Congress Demand Answers
This story was originally published on LAist. The backstory: According to Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, Department of Homeland Security agents entered Russell Elementary and Lillian Street Elementary — both in South L.A.’s Florence-Firestone area — on April 7 and asked to speak with a total of five students. The principals denied those agents entry when they...
By Mariana Dale, LAist | April 16, 2025