Texas district fear loss of pre-kindergarten funding

Feb. 15, 2011
Legislature may cut $104.3 million in grants

From The Dallas Morning News: Texas school districts already bracing for massive funding cuts fear they might be forced to scale back pre-kindergarten classes. Public schools with full-day pre-kindergarten rely heavily on the $104.3 million state grant that funds the classes. But preliminary budgets in the Texas Legislature have proposed either getting rid of the multimillion-dollar grant or reducing the amount.

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