No School for 5 Days = $1 Billion Savings for California

Posted by Alex in Money & Finance, Politics on January 10, 2009 at 12:47 am

Students in California are probably cheering Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plan to save $1 billion to help the state’s big budget deficit by shortening
the school year by five days.

In other news, it costs $200 million a day (!) to run California’s schools!
Let’s give them 10 days off and save $2 billion!

Seema Mehta of the LA Times has the story: Link

 
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