A judge has allowed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Unified School District to proceed to a jury trial, quashing the school officials’ attempt to have the filing dismissed.
The district’s former superintendent Austin Beutner is spearheading the lawsuit. Beutner and Hollywood’s biggest stars helped secure nearly a billion dollars specifically for new art teachers and classes through Proposition 28, with $77 million allocated to LAUSD.
The lawsuit claimed the district did not use the money to hire a single teacher and defrauded taxpayers by not using the money as intended. Outraged parents joined the lawsuit, believing that their children had been cheated…