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District overview

Los Angeles Unified School District

How LAUSD is governed and what its latest Board record means for schools.

Who makes districtwide decisions?

A seven-member elected Board sets policy and adopts the budget.

LAUSD's seven Board members each represent a geographic district. The Board adopts the district budget, Local Control and Accountability Plan, major policies, and long-range strategy; school-level councils make narrower site decisions. California's Local Control Funding Formula is the district's main state funding mechanism, with enrollment and student needs shaping allocations.

Seven Board districts

Each Board member represents one geographic area, while adopted districtwide actions apply across LAUSD schools.

School-level voice

School Site Councils and local leadership bodies handle site plans and categorical budgets; their online records vary by school.

Spending detail gap

The collected Board record confirms adoption of the 2026-27 budget and a $25 million amendment, but does not contain a complete per-student spending figure.

This district page is a fallback. A school's own council minutes, plan, budget summary, and principal updates provide more direct evidence when that school publishes them.

What changes this school year

Routine screen time, Early Ed-grade 1verified
0 minutes per day
Maximum screen time, grades 2-3verified
100 minutes per week
Afterschool funding restoredverified
25,000,000 dollars

Major projects

Grade-level screen-time limits

Adopted; phased implementation underway

LAUSD is reducing routine student screen time, changing device access, and adding family consent rules by grade span.

Next: Grades 2-5 begin their limits in November 2026; the Board must review the policy annually in public.
  1. Board adopted the policy as amended.
  2. Early Education through grade 1 implementation begins.
  3. Grades 2-5 implementation begins.
  4. Grades 6-12 implementation begins.

Funding

The collected policy record does not identify a separate implementation appropriation.

Destination 2030 strategic plan

Adopted

The 2026-2030 plan sets district goals for academics, attendance, student well-being, family engagement, infrastructure, budgeting, enrollment, and workforce stability.

Next: Publish the first annual measures-of-success update under the new plan.
  1. Board adopted the 2026-2030 Strategic Plan.
  2. Plan horizon ends after annual progress reporting through 2030.

Funding

District operating and capital programs; the presentation does not assign one total project budget.

This overview draws on 15 collected official Board records covering 11 regular meetings from August 2025 through June 2026, together with current official governance pages.

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