“As a parent I would like to have more access to this information,” said Ana Carrion, who has a son in 7th grade. “We don’t know if that money is being spent in the way that it should.”
Westminster Elementary School kindergarten teacher Beth Clark stands in the middle of Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice during the LAUSD teachers' strike earlier this year.
These dollars are part of a funding formula that California implemented during Gov. Jerry Brown’s tenure. Districts receive extra money for each student who is low-income, an English learner or a foster youth. L.A. Unified is the state’s largest school district by far and most students fall into one of the three categories.
But L.A. Unified packages many unrelated items together, making it difficult to determine the impact of its spending, or for parents to know where money is going, Affeldt said. School autonomy funds have been used for multiple goals, including improving school climate, parent involvement and student academic achievement, the complaint notes. But these programs should not all have a vague umbrella label, the complaint says.
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