City Gifts MB District With Cash
This is likely to set other school districts' mouths to watering with wishes their own cities would/will do the same thing someday.
Check it out: The Manhattan Beach City Council voted Tuesday to give cash-strapped Manhattan Beach Unified $500,000, stat, to help the school system recover from some of its financial woes, which have only been made worse by the governor's budget proposal to slash education funding.
City reporter Andrea Woodhouse has the story in today's Daily Breeze.
Comments
Why is this assistance treated as so surprising (as in "other school districts mouth's to watering")?
I'm no school expert, but this is not uncommon: Santa Monica annually provides about $7 million in ongoing unrestricted support to SMMUSD (up from $3.5M in 2003), and El Segundo makes about a $250K annual grant plus funds and staffs ESUSD libraries. The City of Torrance gave a $3 million donation to TUSD in 2005 to make up for financial problems. Sounds to me like the City of M.B. is just coming to the table.
Posted by: Gary Osterhout | April 17, 2008 1:04 PM