"Delaying actions would not solve the problem," Carvalho said during the meeting. "In fact, kicking the can down the road would not eliminate reductions. Kicking the can down the road will actually magnify them."
"At some point, we reached a breaking point. We are there."
"This approach reflects a deliberate effort to shield students and front-line educators and support staff from the most severe impacts of this fiscal downturn," Carvalho said. "The district is accepting additional measured risk - fiscal risk ... for the sake of protecting people, positions, workforce members."
The Los Angeles school board voted 4-3 to send out 3,200 notices of possible layoff, potentially resulting in as many as 650 job cuts. The notices target central and regional office staff and are intended to shield classroom teachers, avoid class-size increases, and keep schools open in the coming year. Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said the district is spending more than it is taking in and that a $5 billion reserve within an $18.8 billion budget is expected to disappear within three years. Carvalho warned that delaying cuts would magnify reductions and said the district is accepting measured fiscal risk to protect frontline staff and students. Enrollment fell from nearly 500,000 pre-pandemic to about 390,000 this year, and labor groups oppose the layoffs as unnecessary and harmful.
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