的一项新分析，洛杉矶联合学区的财政偿付能力风险水平很高，因为其入学人数持续多年下降。
The Los Angeles Unified School District has a high fiscal solvency risk level as its yearslong enrollment decline continues, according to a new analysis from California officials.
该州的报告强调，美国第二大学区正在消耗现金，其无限制普通基金的余额预计将从2026财年的约16亿美元减少到2029财年的仅500万美元。
The state’s report underscores that the second-largest school district in the US is burning through cash, with the balance on its unrestricted general fund expected to shrivel from about $1.6 billion in fiscal year 2026 to just $5 million in fiscal year 2029.
地区官员警告说，如果学生出勤率（学校系统大部分资金的基础）继续低于预期，就像本学年初约1%那样，这些数字可能会变得更糟。入学人数每下降一个百分点，收入就会减少多达6000万美元。
District officials have warned those figures could get worse if student attendance — the basis for much of the school system’s funding — continues to fall short of expectations, as it did by about 1% at the start of the current academic year. Each percentage point decline in enrollment reduces revenue by as much as $60 million.
该地区的预算困境引发了新的州审查，并促使两家信用评级机构在今年夏天下调了LAUSD的评级。管理人员已考虑关闭校园，州分析人士认为此举是必要的。
The district’s budget woes triggered the new state review and prompted two credit rating agencies to downgrade LAUSD over the summer. Administrators have considered closing campuses, a move state analysts suggested will be necessary.
独立国家机构财政危机和管理援助小组在报告中表示：“该地区需要根据入学人数调整人员配备和设施。”
“The district will need to align staffing and facilities with enrollment,” the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team, an independent state agency, said in its report.
LAUSD发言人拒绝在董事会周二在定期会议上讨论该分析之前对该分析发表评论。
A spokesperson for LAUSD declined to comment on the analysis before the board discusses it Tuesday during a regularly scheduled meeting.
随着出生率下降，许多年轻家庭因房价过高而无法离开洛杉矶等昂贵城市，该学区只是美国众多学区之一。与此同时，学区面临着从设施维护和保险到员工医疗保健等各种费用的上涨。LAUSD今年早些时候还批准了加薪和扩大福利，以避免大规模教师罢工。
The district is just one of many across the US grappling with a declining number of students as birth rates fall and many young families are priced out of expensive cities like Los Angeles. Meanwhile, school districts face rising prices for everything from facility maintenance and insurance to employee health care. LAUSD also approved raises and expanded benefits earlier this year to avert a major teachers’ strike.
该学区目前正在计划工人休假，并将于本周推出一系列有关可能合并校园的社区信息会议。
The district is now planning worker furloughs and will launch a series of community information sessions this week about potentially consolidating campuses.
虽然洛杉矶USD在很大程度上避免了芝加哥和克利夫兰等其他财务困难的学校系统所实施的全面校园关闭，但该州的分析发现，该学区一直低估了一些学校的容量。
While LAUSD has largely avoided the sort of sweeping campus closures undertaken by other financially troubled school systems, such as in Chicago and Cleveland, the state’s analysis found the district has been understating the capacity of some schools.
接受州官员采访的学校工作人员表示，该学区经常使用教室作为存储空间和办公空间，因为LAUSD学生人数从2010财年的603，814人下降至2026财年的353，065人。
School staff interviewed by state officials said the district routinely used classrooms for storage and office space as the number of LAUSD students fell to 353,065 in fiscal year 2026, down from 603,814 in the 2010 fiscal year.
报告发现，738所学校中有481所学校的运营能力达到或低于60%，但不包括可能共用同一校区的特许学校。
The report found that 481 of 738 schools are operating at or below 60% capacity, when not counting charter schools that may share the same campuses.
该州考虑的许多因素仅表明财政偿付能力风险水平中等，但洛杉矶县教育办公室今年早些时候对该地区发出“缺乏持续担忧”警告，将其归入了较高风险类别。州官员还表示，该地区之前批准的几项节省成本的措施在审查期间尚未实施。
Many of the factors the state considered pointed to only a moderate fiscal solvency risk level, but the the Los Angeles County Office of Education issuing a “lack of going concern” warning on the district earlier this year tipped it into the higher-risk category. State officials also said several of the cost-saving measures the district previously approved hadn’t been implemented during their review.
县监管机构于9月1日批准了该地区的年度预算15但有条件，并要求洛杉矶USD官员在周四之前提供有关成本削减计划的更多细节。
County regulators approved the district’s annual budget on Sept. 15 but with conditions, and required LAUSD officials to provide more details on cost-cutting plans by Thursday.