Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | 10:44 a.m.
A legislative budget subcommittee has voted to accept $35 million in federal stimulus funds to go to schools with a high number of students in poverty, but lawmakers want to see improved student achievement.
The money is to flow through the state to the 17 districts, which will make the decisions on how the money will be spent. But Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, D-Las Vegas, said the state “has a definite role” in seeing some results in educational improvement.
“If the dollars don’t get used right we have a missed opportunity,” he said at a joint meeting of a subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee and the Assembly Ways and Means.
Horsford said this money should not supplant existing money.
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