School District May Cede Control to State
From Times Wire Reports
The city’s school district might become the seventh in the state to turn its debt-ridden administration over to state control.
The decision came one week after the Vallejo City Unified School District ousted its superintendent, Gladys Phillips-Evans, and took some budget-slashing moves to save millions of dollars.
But they weren’t enough to keep the 20,000-student school system afloat on its own, board members said Wednesday. The district is on track to fall $20 million short by the school year’s end.
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