O.C. superintendents lobby for reforms

Fermin Leal, The Orange County Register Orange County’s public schools could avert further massive budget cuts if state and federal lawmakers allow more local control over restricted money for schools, end unnecessary and unfunded mandates and pay their fair share of special education costs, county school leaders said Friday. Twenty superintendents from the county’s 28 districts gathered at the county Department of Education headquarters to announce their campaign for reforms they say would relieve much of the budgetary constraints facing public schools…