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State budget cuts hitting school districts hard
- 03-24-2010
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By Graciela Moreno/KFSN
State Schools Chief Jack O'Connell says the state's budget crisis and cuts to education are making it hard for school districts to operate. Seven local districts are on an early warning list as being in danger of falling in the red. Action News spoke to one district superintendent who says despite being on the list -- his district is financially solvent. Parlier Unified Schools Superintendent Rick Rodriguez says the district is doing the best job it can to provide the best educational program for students -- despite huge cuts in funding. Just in the last 18 months the state has reduced the districts average daily attendance funding from $64-hundred dollars to $48-hundred. A difference of $16-hundred dollars per student. (more...)
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