School Officials Worry About Possible Cuts

{Frankfort, Kentucky}…The federal fiscal cliff was averted, but an agreement that delayed decisions about major spending cuts until late February has some Kentucky school officials worried. According to numbers from the Congressional Budget Office and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, if Congress doesn't reach a compromise on the scheduled spending cuts, Kentucky's 174 school districts will lose $61 million a year in federal support during the next decade. The state now gets $481 million a year from the federal government for education programs. Nancy Rodriguez, a spokeswoman for the Kentucky Department of Education, says the vast majority of planned spending cuts would not likely go into effect until July.