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Lincoln Live — 10:20 p.m. — Thanks, governor

By Roger Phillips | Published: January 13, 2010 | 0 Comments
Last week, Gov. Schwarzenegger vowed to “protect” education funding. But school district officials say it hasn’t turned out that way now that they have taken a closer look at Schwarzenegger’s proposed budget. “I’m really glad he said that,” Trustee Susan Lenz said. “It sounded really encouraging for about 20 hours.”
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Lincoln Live — 8:44 p.m. — $5 million cut

By Roger Phillips | Published: January 13, 2010 | 0 Comments
Yesterday, SUSD officials said the district needs to cut $28.5 million from its 2010-11 budget. Lincoln officials just said they expect to have to cut $5 million from their budget. SUSD has about 38,000 students. Lincoln has about 8,000. If not for an increase this year in average daily attendance, the cuts would be steeper, Superintendent Steve [...]
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Lincoln Live — 8:07 p.m. — Energy

By Roger Phillips | Published: January 13, 2010 | 0 Comments
Kim Fuhrman, a representative of PG&E, is speaking about how the district can cut its energy costs. She mentioned a topic LUSD has discussed in the past — creating a solar farm to power the district’s schools. She said the way to save money is to have solar systems at each individual site. Fuhrman said the first [...]
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Lincoln Live — 7:46 p.m. — Haitian relief

By Roger Phillips | Published: January 13, 2010 | 0 Comments
Lincoln Unified student trustee Sadia Saifuddin spoke briefly. She said she is hoping Lincoln, Lodi and Stockton students can collaborate to raise funds to help victims of the horrible tragedy in Haiti. Also, two examples of how the other half meets: 1: Before the meeting, district spokesperson Lisa Walker mentioned that the last Lincoln meeting went long. [...]
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Live at Lincoln — 6:40 p.m.

By Roger Phillips | Published: January 13, 2010 | 0 Comments
Why should SUSD have all the fun? I’ll be blogging live from the Lincoln Unified meeting tonight. They are in closed session at the moment. The public session, here at John R. Williams, is scheduled to begin at 7:30. Mostly, I’m here to get a feel for Lincoln’s budget situation. But if anything else interesting [...]
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