Word: deficits
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...mainly because of the emergence of charter schools and the middle class's exodus to the suburbs. It could fall further, to 65,000 in the next four years. Those trends, if they persist, will further erode revenues of a school system saddled with a $219 million budget deficit. So Bobb is trying to squeeze out the waste in the meantime, and he has built an investigative apparatus that has uncovered widespread corruption, including nearly 3,800 unauthorized dependents on employee health-insurance rolls. In the case of the ninth-grade dropout, the judge essentially followed Bobb's suggestion...
...Denial was a problem too. Shortly before Bobb took over, Detroit's school board okayed a budget that it claimed had an $8 million surplus. Bobb's assessment showed a budget deficit of $303.5 million. He's since reduced the deficit partly by trimming the system's job rolls from about 14,000 to about 13,000. He's closed 29 of the district's 194 schools and hired outside firms to restructure 17 others. And in what may be his most inspired move, Bobb has asked some 2,600 volunteers to donate 360,000 hours to helping kids read...
...sabre squad was the bright squad for the men, holding the edge in all of its first four matches. But the group was unable to run the table, as a 6-3 deficit made the difference in a 14-13 loss to host St. John?...
...nationally ranked Seminoles never looked back after Harvin’s jumper, putting the Crimson at a 16-point deficit by halftime, one from which the team would be unable to recover...
Harvard came back in the second half of the period, ripping 12 shots before the first intermission. And with just over a minute to play in the opening frame, co-captain Cori Bassett cut the deficit in half...