Washington exec says President-elect Obama to include school-related funding in stimulus package

This from Brad Hughes at KSBA:

(Louisville) — Kentucky superintendents, waiting for Gov. Beshear’s plans to cut state spending to reduce a $456 million revenue shortfall, got some hopeful predictions Tuesday that new federal funds could help ease the pain from Frankfort.

Bruce Hunter, associate executive director of the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), told more than 100 superintendents and other education leaders that President-elect Barack Obama’s plans for a “gigantic” stimulus package “would probably knock a pretty good hole in that 4 percent (state funding cut) that you’re facing.”

Speaking in Louisville at the winter conference of the Kentucky Association of School Superintendents, Hunter said AASA is working with the Obama transition team on a three-pronged approach within the proposed stimulus package to benefit schools.

“This package will be on the order of $1 trillion dollars, and a significant portion of that is going to be for schools in the form of major renovations and repairs and technology purchases,” Hunter said....