ABC reports, “The Los Angeles Board of Education voted Tuesday to lay off as many as 5,400 teachers and support personnel for the upcoming school year” in order to help close “a roughly $718 million deficit.”

Ok, that’s a start. But the number of public school employees in the US has doubled ^[1] since 1970, while the number of students has increased by just 9 percent.

The bloated, inefficient and ineffective LA District now spends ^[2] nearly $13 billion a year –- over $20,000 per student –- so they might want to keep on cutting.

Considering the fact that the median private school tuition is around $4,800, maybe they could just let parents and taxpayers keep, say, a third of that money to spend on education themselves.

Presto, no budget problem ^[3]! Although there would be a huge increase in unemployed school bureaucrats and ineffective teachers . . . I think it’s a good trade.