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twitterState bails out Lincoln County with $1 million for school
Friday, Aug. 13, 1999 | 12:15 p.m.
Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn and other members of the state Board of Examiners authorized the expenditure after determining Lincoln County met the criteria for a state bailout.
The panel was told that the county's population and tax base are declining and 75 students would be put in a risk if they remained in the existing school, built in 1905.
The decision marks only the second time this century that the state has financed local school construction. Earlier in the 1990s the state funded repairs at a school on Indian reservation land in Schurz.
This year the state also agreed to free White Pine County from paying back loans it previously granted for school repairs there.
Guinn said the state has a constitutional responsibility to provide equal educational opportunity for all children.
"Most rural areas are highly dependent on mining, and mining is going through difficult times," he said. "If mining doesn't come back, then we have to be look at changing something."
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