UTLA files complaint against LAUSD

Los Angeles teacher union officials filed 14 complaints against the L.A. Unified School District on Monday, claiming it allowed schools to spend too much federal stimulus money on out-of-classroom jobs, which they said would boost class sizes and jeopardize learning.Connie Llanos in the Daily News.

School district officials, who have a number of days to respond to the complaints, permitted individual schools to use federal stimulus money to buy back a number of teachers and other workers whose jobs were set to be eliminated because of budget cuts.

At the end of the buyback program, a total of 2,668 teaching, counseling and other jobs were bought back in the district, and 1,056 of them were out-of-classroom jobs, LAUSD officials said Monday.