LOS ANGELES—As Angelenos are losing confidence in the quality of education in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), which is troubled by declining academic performance and enrollment, district officials are looking into tutoring as a potential solution for learning loss during the pandemic. The recent poll conducted by Great Public Schools Now, a nonprofit organization focusing on LA’s public education, reported that 70 percent of participants rated LAUSD schools’ quality of education negatively, and 73 percent of voters voted “no” when the poll asked if they believed every LA neighborhood has a good K–12 school. This lack of faith in Los Angeles’s education system is backed up by declining academic performance numbers in the district. According to an LAUSD spokesperson, only 48 percent of kindergarten students met the state’s early literacy benchmarks in the 2020–21 school year—a three percent drop from the previous year, and a 19 percent drop …