The Los Angeles Unified School District’s leader pleaded with California for more emergency funding Monday, saying uncovered bills for the district’s response to the coronavirus crisis are mounting fast.
By the end of the school year, Superintendent Austin Beutner estimated that LAUSD’s pandemic response will cost the nation's second largest public school system nearly $200 million that it doesn’t currently have in its $8 billion budget.
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We sit down with Beutner and other LAUSD officials and watchers to discuss the school district’s transition to distance learning, funding challenges and what’s to come for the rest of the school year and beyond.
If your student needs a laptop to access school work, you can call this LAUSD hotline: 213-443-1300. For student with disabilities, the hotline number is: 213-241-6701.
With files from LAist.
Guests:
Austin Beutner, superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District
Kyle Stokes, education reporter for KPCC covering K-12 education; he tweets
Carla Javier, KPCC reporter on the education team who’s been reporting on a series of townhalls hosted by LAUSD board members for the school community; she tweets
Alison Yoshimoto-Towery, Chief Academic Officer at LAUSD; she tweets
Anthony Aguilar, Chief of Special Education, Equity and Access at LAUSD