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Educators Rights — Los Angeles
LAUSD spends billions of public dollars every year. Students are not proficient. Teachers are being pushed out. This site exists to name what is happening — with facts, with sources, and on the record.
See the dataBy the numbers
The figures below are drawn from California Department of Education reports, LAUSD board-approved budgets, and federal assessments. All sources are cited.
Students enrolled
2025–26 projected
396K
↓ from 747K peak in 2002
Annual budget
2025–26
$18.8B
Revenue: $15.9B — deficit spending
Approx. cost
per student
$47K
Budget ÷ enrolled students
Graduation rate
2023–24
87%
↑ Record high — but context matters
LAUSD enrollment collapse: 2002 – 2026
↓ 350,000 students lost since 2002 — yet spending continues to rise
Academic proficiency — percentage below standard, then percentage meeting standard
Smarter Balanced Assessment, 2023–24. Bars show the missing value: students not meeting or exceeding state standards.
Source: California Department of Education, Smarter Balanced results 2023–24
Chronic absenteeism rate — missed 10% or more of instructional days
LAUSD districtwide vs. California statewide, 2023–24.
Source: CDE DataQuest; EdSource, February 2024
4th grade math proficiency — percentage below proficient, then percentage proficient
2024 federal NAEP exam. Bars show students below proficient; labels keep the at-or-above-proficient percentage visible.
Source: National Center for Education Statistics, NAEP 2024
Systemic failures
The data above does not exist in a vacuum. Behind every empty bar is a policy decision, a budget priority, and a workforce managed in ways that harm both educators and students.
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Cost per student vs. outcomes
With a $18.8B budget and approximately 396,000 students, the district spends an estimated $47,000 per student annually. Less than a third of those students meet math standards.
Fiscal accountability02
Veteran teacher attrition
Experienced teachers at the top of the pay scale cost more. Districts have documented financial incentives to remove veteran educators and replace them with lower-cost new hires — at the expense of institutional knowledge and student continuity.
Workforce policy03
The PAR system
The Peer Assistance and Review program is designed on paper to support struggling teachers. In practice, it has been used as a pathway to remove educators — disproportionately those with seniority, higher salaries, or who have raised workplace concerns.
Due process04
Enrollment collapse
LAUSD has lost more than 350,000 students since 2002. Families are leaving for charter schools, private schools, and homeschooling. The district's response has been consolidations and cuts — not a reckoning with why families are leaving.
Enrollment decline05
Disability & leave rights
California law requires employers to engage in an interactive process when an employee develops a disability and requests accommodation. LAUSD's track record in honoring these obligations — and in not retaliating against employees who assert their rights — warrants scrutiny.
FEHA / ADA06
Chronic absenteeism
Nearly one in three LAUSD students missed 10% or more of school in 2023–24 — nearly double the state average. At priority schools the rate reaches 40%. These are not abstractions. These are children not in classrooms.
Student outcomesAbout
Educators Rights was created to help teachers, school employees, and public servants understand their rights — and to document, with verified public data, the systemic failures that affect them and the students they serve.
This is not a union. It is not affiliated with any political organization. It is a resource for educators who want to understand how the systems around them work — and what recourse they have when those systems fail them.
Everything published here is grounded in public record. The goal is accountability, not grievance — and transparency, not litigation.
If you are a current or former LAUSD employee with a story to share, or a journalist covering public education in California, this site is for you.
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