News in Brief: A National Roundup
The beleaguered Roosevelt school district on Long Island, N.Y.,
which faces a state takeover, avoided laying off 30 employees last week
with a $1.4 million cash infusion from the state Senate.
The school board of New York's only state-supervised district had been ordered by state Commissioner of Education Richard P. Mills to make $2.8 million in spending cuts to help balance its budget.
"I wasn't going to allow employees to become the victims of mismanagement by the board," said Sen. Charles J. Fuschillo Jr., the Republican state lawmaker who secured money from a $3 million emergency fund set aside for the school system, which is located in his district. He has asked the state Assembly, the legislature's lower house, to make up the remaining $1.4 million from its $3...
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