LAUSD's Looming Insolvency Crisis

The same board that laid off 3,200 workers in February approved $1.13 billion a year in union raises in June, just four days after the county warned in writing it couldn't afford them. Now, with a new superintendent barely in the job and a mid-August deadline looming, LAUSD is one misstep from the fate of Oakland, Sacramento, and a growing list of California districts that lost control of their…