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Saturday, August 15, 2009

School districts allowed to delay updating books - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

School districts allowed to delay updating books - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News Sacramento Bee: "Think of it as a word problem in a sixth-grade math book.
If the Elk Grove Unified School District spends $3.5 million annually for instructional materials and the state Legislature gives them a five-year reprieve from replacing those, how much can the district save?
Enough, said Steven Ladd, superintendent of Elk Grove Unified, that his district has wiggle room in one of the tightest budget years that public school administrators can remember."