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State education chief eyes cost-cut ideas

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Cancel Conservation Day?

Faced with the darkest financial outlook in 20 years, state Education Commissioner David Steiner Monday unveiled 53 potential cost-cutting ideas for schools that range from simplifying paperwork to dropping mandatory celebrations of Conservation Day, formerly known as Arbor Day.

Some of those ideas - though far from all - are expected to be incorporated into...

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