Small school districts win a round in California funding battle
Published: Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 - 12:00 am | Page 1B
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Friday that delivers $1 million more dollars to the San Juan Unified School District but takes $900,000 from Elk Grove Unified.
The bill restores $248 million in midyear cuts to school transportation. Legislators had proposed the bill after opponents of the transportation cuts called them unequal and unfair, especially to rural districts where students travel miles to school.
Indeed, the transportation cuts took little to nothing from some school districts while others, such
