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TexDOT: No Money to Build New Hghways Agency blames diversion of state gas tax money, curbs on privately funded toll roads By Jim Forsyth Friday, September 28, 2007 At a time the Texas Department of Transportation is defending spending thousands of dollars on a public relations campaign designed to convince you to support toll roads, the department says it has no money to pay for highway construction, 1200 WOAI's Robert Wood reports. "The bottom line is, we're running out of money very quickly," TexDOT's Chris Lippincott says. Lippincott blames decisions by state lawmakers to spend more than $1.5 billion in...

<p>Oakland -- After three years under Superintendent Dennis Chaconas, who turned the Oakland public schools into a national model of urban school reform, California's sixth-largest school district is broke and headed for the most expensive takeover in state history.</p> <p>The 48,000-student district will ask the state for an estimated $100 million bailout. Board members say they will have to consider laying off teachers, increasing class sizes and closing some schools to save money.</p>