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LAUSD ignored the warnings — Now the bills are due

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The Los Angeles Unified School District has been given 45 days to prove it can responsibly manage its own finances or risk losing significant control over its budget to outside fiscal overseers.

For the nation’s second-largest school district, that is an extraordinary humiliation. It is also entirely deserved.

The Los Angeles County Office of Education has concluded that LAUSD shows “severe” signs of insolvency and could be $231 million in the red, unable to make payroll, by November 2027. A fiscal expert is already working with the district.

If LAUSD fails to satisfy county officials, the next step could be a fiscal adviser with authority to block school board spending decisions. A state bailout could eventually strip the elected board of much of its power.

The warning signs were there for everyone to see.

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In April, after tentative labor agreements were announced, I wrote that LAUSD was buying labor peace with money it did not have.

In June, before the school board formally approved those agreements, county officials warned they were too expensive. The board approved them anyway.

Less than a month later, the county’s warning became a formal finding.

The contracts add roughly $1.13 billion in costs this school year, climbing to $1.44 billion in 2027-28. They include a 24% increase over three years for SEIU support staff, nearly 14% over two years for teachers and almost 12% over two years for administrators.

At the same time, the district failed to carry out........

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