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Today's front page: School deficits, pensions

6:37 AM Fri, Mar 13, 2009 |
Donna McGarry    Email

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The lead story in today's Journal reports that federal stimulus funds won't come close to rescuing Rhode Island's most cash-strapped school districts. In other news, a House study commission has endorsed a plan for a new retirement package for state employees and teachers, the U.S. Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the death of a detainee at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls last summer and it's the second Friday the 13th in as many months.

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