PRESS ADVISORY
For Immediate Release October 1, 2019
Contact:
Isabel Alegría
Nicole Gon Ochi

L.A. School Board Reviews Controversial LCAP

Today, members of the Los Angeles School Board will be considering a controversial spending plan proposed by LAUSD under the state’s Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) law that community members and advocates have challenged as not meeting the requirements of the law.

Who: School Board members, community members, advocates

What: Los Angeles School Board meeting

When: 5:00 p.m.

Where: 333 South Beaudry Ave., Ground Level, Los Angeles 90017

Why: To hear consideration of LAUSD amended LCAP (Item 29)

Background

In July of this year, Public Advocates filed a complaint on behalf of LAUSD parents charging that the district violated the state’s education funding law (LCFF) because it did not properly report or account for more than $1 billion in state funds that were supposed to serve low-income students, English language learners and foster youth in its annual spending plan, known as the LCAP (“6/18 Local Control and Accountability Plan”).

As a result of the complaint and subsequent intervention by LACOE, LAUSD amended its LCAP (“9/12 LCAP”). The amended LCAP provided more detailed descriptions of services, reflection of effectiveness, and disaggregation of expenditures, but many problems remained. After Public Advocates submitted a letter outlining the problems with LAUSD’s amended LCAP (and a very short online public comment window), LAUSD amended its LCAP again (“9/20 LCAP”), to wordsmith its way out of fundamental transparency and accountability problems. The Board is expected to vote on the 9/20 LCAP on October 1st.

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