School District 55 has dropped a proposal to shorten the school year by three days.
Supt. Larry Horton had asked the teachers to consider cutting three days this school year to cover a possible $133,000 shortfall in funding next year.
That figure was based on a $4.55 billion budget for education statewide. He built the 2003-04 budget on a $4.8 billion estimate, a number that had been considered earlier this year by the legislature.
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