O.C. superintendents lobby for reforms
May 14, 2010 Filed in: Budget & Finance
| Superintendents
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…