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Continuing a hard-line stance against proposals for a tax increase, lawmakers defeated by an 82-72 vote a $31 million proposal for Equal Educational Opportunity (EEO) grants...
...EEO grants were designed to help those towns that don't do as much in education as some others do," said Rep. William B. Vernon (R-Mansfield). "We have funded these grants, and they are working. We should continue to live up to our commitment and continue trying to bring up basic skills scores...
School districts with direct nonadministrative costs that are less than 85 percent of the state average receive EEO grants...
House Chair of the Education Committee Rep. Nicholas A. Paleologos (D-Woburn), a co-sponsor of the amendment, sought the increase in EEO funding, saying the grants were the state's major "carrot" in enticing communities to improve their schools...
...House budget suggested appropriating $108 million for EEO grants, $2 million less than this fiscal year...