Edujobs money won’t be budget hostage

09-02-2010

Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess

Republicans and Democrats went through the motions of rejecting each other’s budgets Tuesday, leaving school districts still no closer, weeks into the new year, to knowing how much state money they’ll be getting this year.

But at least they can count on $1.2 billion in federal dollars coming their way soon. Before calling it quits, the Legislature passed an emergency appropriation by a two-thirds majority that will allocate and speed up distribution of the state’s share of the $10 billion “Keep Out Educators Working Act of 2010″ that Congress passed earlier this month. The edujobs bill is supposed to put many of California’s estimated 14,500 laid off teachers back on the job. The Legislature acted so that the money wouldn’t get caught in squabbling over the state budget. (more…)

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