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School officials want cut of federal bailout, USAToday

January 12, 2009
By Greg Toppo

If banks, insurance companies and automakers are getting a piece of Washington's bailout largesse, why not cash-strapped schools?

That's the thinking of officials at a few hard-pressed school systems, who have set wheels in motion to get a share of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, intended for ailing financial institutions, and the economic stimulus package now before Congress.

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