Byline: ERIKA ROSENBERG Gannett News Service
ALBANY -- Gov. George Pataki's plan to rein in state spending on school building projects has some local school leaders worried that needed construction won't get done.
Pataki proposed changing how the state helps schools with building projects as part of his overall state budget. He wants to slow state spending on school construction, which has ballooned from $600 million in 1996-97 to nearly $1.2 billion this school year.
``Unsustainable growth in school construction threatens to exhaust the availability of state resources to support other education priorities,'' according to Pataki's budget proposal. …
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