District Teachers Asked to Stop Using Appliances
From Times Wire Reports
Teachers in the Lodi Unified School District have been asked to pull the plug on coffeemakers, refrigerators and microwaves to help ease the state’s budget crunch and to support a districtwide energy-conservation effort.
A district memo warned them they have until July 1. Teachers in other school districts, such as Tracy Unified, have already given up their appliances.
Officials hope the unplugging will help trim some of the $600,000 that needs to be shed from the district’s $200-million 2004-05 budget.
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