Cash-strapped LAUSD awards staff massive pay raises as students flounder and investigations fester

Source: New York Post

The cash-strapped Los Angeles Unified School District tentatively agreed to hand its staff generous pay raises to avoid a teachers strike — even while the troubled district’s students are scoring lower than the rest of the state and its leadership faces investigations from federal and local authorities. The nation’s second largest district narrowly avoided a catastrophic shutdown after its leadership reached an agreement with Local 99 of the Service Employees International Union just after 2 a. m.