Want to see how much your local school district could get from the federal jobs bill meant to spare teachers? Check out these tables just posted by the California Department of Education. (Click on Schedule of Preliminary Entitlements. It sounds scintillating, I know.)
San Diego Unified, the largest local school district, is slated to get more than $21 million in funding; Sweetwater schools could get $8.8 million and Poway Unified is up for $6.3 million.
While California legislators voted to disburse the $1.2 billion in funding to schools statewide, the move is still waiting on a signature from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. A press release
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