{"id":929995,"date":"2026-07-12T14:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T14:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/929995\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T14:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T14:20:20","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-you-dont-need-a-fiscal-expert-to-see-where-lausd-is-wasting-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/929995\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: You don\u2019t need a \u2018fiscal expert\u2019 to see where LAUSD is wasting money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To the editor<\/b>: I find it funny that the county has hired a \u201cfiscal expert\u201d to work with the Los Angeles Unified School District to eliminate its projected deficit (\u201cLAUSD faces \u2018severe\u2019 signs of insolvency; county warns it could take control of budget,\u201d<\/a> July 9). You don\u2019t need an expert. You just need common sense.<\/p>\n

Example: When Andres Chait was acting superintendent, his salary was $395,867<\/a>, plus a car with a driver. Who is he, Elton John? By the way, the president of the United States\u2019 salary is $400,000<\/a>, just $4,133 more than Chait\u2019s.<\/p>\n

I will speculate that there are examples like this throughout every agency in L.A., from the LAUSD to the Department of Water and Power to the Police Department. The rotting food in Boyle Heights<\/a> is not the only thing that stinks in L.A.<\/p>\n

Chuck Heinz, West Hills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: I find it funny that the county has hired a \u201cfiscal expert\u201d to work with…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":924811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[266169,1582,276,1805,3059,3040,7129,22683,375030,144884,6276,2961,72161,19945,224,5337,6459,6172,16931,527],"class_list":["post-929995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-andres-chait","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-control","tag-county","tag-department","tag-editor","tag-example","tag-fiscal-expert","tag-insolvency","tag-l-a","tag-la","tag-lausd","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-money","tag-power","tag-salary","tag-water"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116907450532936215","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}