04/16/2024

Dan Walters: Creative accounting solved school district’s big financial headache

Officials of the huge Los Angeles Unified School District woke up with a splitting financial headache one day last year.

The state Department of Education accused the district of improperly spending hundreds of millions of dollars it had received from the state to improve the learning of poor and “English learner” students.

How L.A. Unified’s headache was relieved is an eye-opening exercise in creative political accounting.

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