The blog, "LA Public Education Examiner," by Stuart Goldurs, an LAUSD teacher, reveals some waste in the form of principals and others in District 3 of the LAUSD holding monthly meetings at the Marina Mariott Hotel. http://www.examiner.com/x-3311-LA-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m3d21-LAUSD-your-tax-dollars-at-waste-here-paying-for-meetings-The-AIG-of-LAUSD
He asks the pointed question, "For how many years has this been going on?" as well as the wider question on how many other outside meetings across the district are held at rented rooms, with paid meals, parking included? Its the things like this that leave the LAUSD ripe for criticism on waste, but there are so many diverse areas for challenge, that you often wonder, where do you start? Better accountability- make that just "accountability"- is needed. Like lots of governmental bureaucracies, there's no one around who really is in charge of that part and no one, of course, volunteers to take the rap.
The District is too big. Other districts like Burbank, Glendale and Alhambra might not be squeaky clean but they probably can find problems faster and be able to locate somebody responsible without too many layers of personnel to dig through.
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