News In Brief

The Education Committee of the Mississippi Senate has approved a bill aimed at helping school districts cope with fiscal strains created by state budget cuts.

Local educators have been trying this year, so far without success, to get lawmakers to restore $30 million in state school aid cut last year. (See Education Week, Feb. 12, 1992.)

Under the bill, districts would be allowed to shorten their school year by five days to avoid budget deficits in the 1992-93 year, if they were unable to...