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Legislators Told State Will Run Out Of Money For K-12 School Facilities In Months | California Progress Report

Legislators Told State Will Run Out Of Money For K-12 School Facilities In Months | California Progress Report:

Legislators Told State Will Run Out Of Money For K-12 School Facilities In Months

By Dan Aiello
California Progress Report

At Wednesday’s Joint Oversight Hearing on Financing Options for School Facilities - chaired by Senator Alan Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) and Assemblywoman Julia Brownley (D-Santa Monica) - legislators were told California will run out of funding for new construction of the state’s K-12 facilities by April, and modernization of its decaying or seismically deficient infrastructure by August of 2012.

Brownley, who has been a strong advocate for education in California, is proud of the joint effort by the state and local school districts to improve California’s K-12 school facilities over the last decade.

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