December 17, 2009
Alabama
BY MARKESHIA RICKS at Montgomery Adviser
State education officials are requesting an education budget that is smaller than last year’s, but it’s also as equally unlikely to be funded as its predecessor.
Already operating under a $5.7 billion education budget that was reduced to $5.32 billion at the start of October, the heads of the state’s K-12 [...]
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December 11, 2009
Alabama
By Phillip Rawls, Associated Press Writer
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama’s public schools spent nearly $222 million more than they received in revenues in the last fiscal year, which required raiding their savings accounts and borrowing money to keep doors open and teachers paid during the recession.
State Superintendent of Education Joe Morton called what happened “an [...]
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