Calif. Educators Seek To Cash In On Good Times

By Drew Lindsay

The annual skirmish over California's budget has a new twist this year: The fight isn't over whose programs will get cut, but rather how to divvy up the spoils of the state's new economic prosperity.

And school officials want to make sure that education gets its cut.

After a slump that spanned the first half of the 1990s, the state economy is rebounding, giving lawmakers a rare chance to...

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