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Pressing 'Pause' on a Major Change in School Funds - voiceofsandiego.org: Schooled: The Education Blog

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Pressing 'Pause' on a Major Change in School Funds

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Posted: Monday, April 25, 2011 10:57 am |Updated: 6:13 pm, Mon Apr 25, 2011.

School board member John Lee Evans is proposing that San Diego Unified stop and reexamine its plans before pulling federal money away from some schools to give more to the very poorest schools.

Evans says he wants to get more community input and give the school board a chance to reconsider before December, when the board decides how to split up the money for the following year.

If the school board bites at the idea, it will pause one of the most hotly debated plans in San Diego Unified. And it could open the door to reversing it entirely, backing off on a