By Cara Fitzpatrick April 24, 2012 02:37 PM It sounds like Broward Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie is rethinking his “rumored” plan to lay off bookkeepers and budgetkeepers in the elementary and middle schools. Last week, the Federation of Public Employees told me that bookkeepers were losing their jobs. Union officials said that Runcie wanted to [...]
Congress, White House agree on one-week deal to delay federal shutdown
April 9, 2011 Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and congressional leaders struck a last-minute budget deal on Friday to narrowly avert a government shutdown that would have hit the economy and idled hundreds of thousands of workers. With a little over an hour to spare before a midnight deadline, Obama’s Democrats and opposition Republicans agreed to a [...]