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It didn’t take long for the Los Angeles Unified School District to plan for drawing down a huge chunk of $9 billion in school construction and modernization bonds that voters approved in November.

“This failure will produce a significant danger to the citizens of Los Angeles County, which can be averted through the immediate modernization and replacement of the CAD and RMS systems.”

There has been one significant modernization: The association saved a bundle on its electric bill about five years ago when it switched from incandescent, easy-to-break glass bulbs to plastic LED lights.

So far the department has updated benefit applications, contact centers, the claims process, policies, procedures and forms as part of its modernization program, dubbed EDDNext.

Huge new appropriations for nuclear weapons are voted under the euphemism of “modernization.”