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1 in 5 Los Angeles County School Districts Had Major Accounting Moves in 2020

1 in 5 Los Angeles County School Districts Had Major Accounting Moves in 2020
El Segundo High School in El Segundo, Calif., on July 28, 2020. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
John Moorlach
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The fiscal year of July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020, was one of the more memorable for California’s school districts. The COVID-19 pandemic would dramatically impact students in March of 2020. The Golden State had not seen anything like it since the Spanish Flu epidemic in 1918, more than a century prior. This unique worldwide event included a lockdown of public schools, thanks to an executive order from Gov. Gavin Newsom.

John Moorlach
John Moorlach
Author
John Moorlach is the director of the California Policy Center's Center for Public Accountability. He has served as a California State Senator and Orange County Supervisor and Treasurer-Tax Collector. In 1994, he predicted the County's bankruptcy and participated in restoring and reforming the sixth most populated county in the nation.