The LAUSD Waste Basket

A series of unfortunate expenditures, investigated and tracked by UTLA.

Nvember 2008	Something fishy at LAUSD: $13,000 for sushi maker
October 2008	$1.2 million for a new security system at Beaudry?
February 2008	$400 million on computers and few new ones to be found!
December 2007	$0 dollars for teacher increases but plenty for PR consultants!
October 2007	School supplies or a shopping spree? Are LAUSD credit cards a “free-for-all”?
July 2007	The Summer of Waste: When the temperatures go up, so does the mismanagement at LAUSD.
March 2007	$95 million for the new payroll system and what do we have to show for it?
January 2007	Senior Level Contracts: Why Are These People Making So Much More Than Teachers?
December 2007	Non-School Spending Swells from $210 million to $440 million
November 2007	What Would You Do With $60,000? (Bet you wouldn't pay for deluxe hotel rooms for administrators!

Be our eyes and ears in the schools and send in your examples of waste and mismanagement to webmaster@utla.net. If it's money that could be better spent on our classrooms and our students, we want to know about it. Your name and email address will be kept confidential.