On July 11, 2015 Public Advocates filed lawsuit on behalf of parent Reyna Frias and the Community Coalition of South Los Angeles against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) for not accounting for billions of dollars in funds earmarked for high need students. In the first case brought to enforce the Local Control Funding Formula, this coalition suit challenged the Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) failure to direct some $450 million annually to the required increased and improved services for high-need students. This extraordinary first victory resulted in the California Department of Education requiring LAUSD to properly allocate all of this funding going forward. A final settlement regarding the funding for lost services from years past allocated $150 million in services over 3 years to the district’s 50 highest-need middle and high schools.