Members of the panel that parcels out state funds for school construction grilled top officials of a Perris school district Wednesday about its mounting debt and questionable spending decisions, but delayed for a month a decision that could deliver a major financial blow to the district.The State Allocation Board is considering withholding $89 million in construction funding because the Val Verde Unified School District borrowed that amount by issuing special, non-voter-approved debt to supplement what it was getting from the state. State officials say that borrowed money should have been used on past and future projects instead of state money.
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Val Verde schools: An article in Thursday's California section about an appearance by Val Verde Unified School District officials at a state board meeting in Sacramento misquoted Supt. C. Fred Workman. Workman was quoted in some editions as saying that because the district would return borrowed money for school construction overruns, "all we will have left is what we can bleed from the state of California." Workman said "glean," not "bleed." —
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