Paying for payroll disaster

Hoping to fix the disastrous payroll system that has overpaid or underpaid thousands of employees for nearly a year, the Los Angeles Unified School District board Tuesday agreed to spend $9.8 million on a new consultant. Naush Boghossian in the Daily News.

Board member Tamar Galatzan said the unanimous vote to hire Atlanta-based EPI-USE was rushed, but necessary.

"I certainly don't want to throw good money after bad, but we have to fix this system, and we have to look at every resource out there to fix it," Galatzan said. "I'm concerned that the board didn't get a copy of this contract to review until (Monday) afternoon."

LAUSD Superintendent David Brewer said Tuesday that it would take until July if the district tried to fix the massive computer glitches on its own.