The future might be bright for the nation's schools that have been hammered by budget restraints in this economic recession. The federal economic stimulus package that just passed in the House of Representatives contains $106 billion for education, "an unprecedented expansion of federal spending into the nation's schools," reports the Los Angeles Times.
The revised House plan provides tens of billions less for education than its earlier version, but more than the Senate version. Among other things, the money would pay for: special education, school repair and retaining teachers. But with such a high budget gap in California for next year, school officials note that "cuts still would be necessary."
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