Ala. Finance Officials Say School Revenues Down
State officials received more bad economic news on the eve of the Legislature's session convening — a report of school revenues down sharply while Gov. Bob Riley said the state needs a federal economic stimulus package to avoid widespread layoffs in public education.
"States alone cannot stimulate the national economy," Riley told high school students Monday in a live interactive video exchange with students at several high schools across the state. It was a warmup for his State of the State speech to the Legislature on its opening day Tuesday.
Riley told the students their schools depend on Congress passing a stimulus package. He did not mention that Alabama's delegation in the U.S. House cast one vote for the package and six against it. It is now pending in the U.S. Senate, where both Alabama senators...
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