Calif. Legislature Backs Two Measures To Aid Fiscally Strapped Urban Districts

By Peter Schmidt

As California schools opened this month to the threat of additional teacher layoffs, the legislature has passed two measures designed to ease the pain of budget cuts for some large urban districts.

Gov. Pete Wilson last week had not taken a stand on the more oontroversial of the bills, an emergency measure allowing the Los Angeles and SanFrancisco school districts to postpone payments into the State Teachers Retirement...