Over the last few years, California schools have taken some of the heaviest budget hits as the state deals with the Great Recession. California's budget crisis, along with LAUSD’s decline in student enrollment, has increased the pressure on the District to maintain our staffing and educational offerings with fewer dollars.

We have challenged ourselves here at the central and local District to cut our ranks first before we ask teachers to do with less. Unfortunately, this crisis has reached our classrooms and threatens to go even deeper next year. The only way we can be successful is if we work together to help our students. However, we recognize it won’t be easy. 

Even though times are tough, we must remain true to our vision: that every LAUSD student will receive a quality education in a safe, caring environment, and every graduate will be college-prepared and career-ready.

We must stay focused and lead with instruction. We must think about our students first. Our challenge? Achieve our vision even as resources are reduced by the State. 

This website was created to give every LAUSD employee, students, parents and education partners an accurate presentation of LAUSD budget realities. Please review the pages on this website to learn how we are focusing our efforts on instruction, reducing our spending across the Board, and working with our bargaining units to find shared solutions and agreements on furlough days and other cost-savings measures. 

We want to thank our employee partners who agreed to take up to seven furlough days this year and five days last year to prevent class size increases and save jobs. We still need to save money so we are working with our labor partners to negotiate furlough days for next year in order to preserve thousands of jobs and programs. We can only weather this budget tsunami together. 

We need everyone to help out for the sake of our students who deserve a quality education every day.