LAUSD reaches deal on furloughs

Leaders of Los Angeles Unified's administrators and police unions tentatively agreed this week to taking 12 furlough days to help the district close a $408 million budget deficit and sources close to negotiations said Wednesday that more unions are expected to join them.
Connie Llanos in the Daily News.
But district officials are concerned by the progress of the negotiations with the teachers union, L.A. Unified's biggest. The union claims that LAUSD has overstated its budget deficit by $150 million by counting a loss of state revenues twice.

"We are willing to accept necessary sacrifices to bring back our members, but we can't determine what those are without reliable budget information," said A.J. Duffy, president of United Teachers Los Angeles.