Many California schools are waiting for promised repair funds

From The Sacramento Bee: Eight years after California settled a landmark lawsuit promising hundreds of millions of dollars to repair shoddy school facilities, more than 700 schools still are waiting for their share of funds as students take classes on dilapidated campuses with health and safety hazards. The state has funded less than half of the $800 million required by the Emergency Repair Program, which grew out of a class-action lawsuit that former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger agreed to settle. Since then, schools in 39 counties have waited as long as four years for the money to fix leaking roofs, crumbling pavement and clogged sewer lines.