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Midnight deadline for fate of school funds bill
- 08-31-2010
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By Andrew Edwards/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
The Legislature has until midnight to pass a bill that would allow local school districts to tap into roughly $1.2 billion intended for the rehiring of laid-off teachers. "If we had a budget, we wouldn't need it (the bill), but we need the authority to get the money out as soon as possible," California Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell said by telephone from LAX. O'Connell spoke between a Monday press conference in Glendale and another scheduled for this morning in Fresno to urge lawmakers to pass the bill before the Legislature's current session ends at midnight. The Legislature is more than two months late in meeting its constitutionally mandated deadline of June 15 to adopt a budget. (more…)
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