Learning how education funds are spent

It’s never a good sign when public officials refuse to answer questions. That’s what happened when CALmatters reporter Jessica Calefati visited two Los Angeles County school districts in January and asked to review their budgets as part of an investigation into educational outcomes under the state’s Local Control Funding Formula.
Her requests were denied and she was turned away. Calefati wrote in March that the experience was “emblematic of an access problem” with t