LAUSD has $57 million fund for hiring

Up to $57 million in funds controlled by Los Angeles Unified schools that were expected to save the jobs of hundreds of teachers, nurses and counselors have not been spent, according to district officials. connie Llanos via Daily Breeze.

The district placed the funds under the authority of schools in an effort to promote local decision-making, but now Superintendent John Deasy faces a dilemma: He supports local control, but he wants schools to spend their money to help reduce the roughly 1,900 layoffs of teachers, nurses and counselors planned in the new fiscal year that begins Friday.

After negotiating furlough deals with district unions earlier this year to help reduce layoffs, officials had estimated that local schools would help out by choosing to use their own funds to buy back about 700 to 1,000 positions.