Students return to schools, LAUSD deals with deficit

Hundreds of thousands of Los Angeles Unified students today head back to school, where they'll find crowded classrooms, fewer teachers and limited services thanks to a year of tough budget cuts.Connie Llanos in the Daily News.

And the students won't be the only ones with a homework assignment.

District officials say state lawmakers have given them a vexing math problem to start the year: Subtract about $140 million - the equivalent of closing down seven high schools - from this year's budget.