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Can someone please explain to the city council that they can not dictate how the school department spends money?

The school committee is the only entity allowed by law to decide how its money is spent.

Council President Merolla is either ignoring or forgetting the law, and despite his own words that "The kids should not be held hostage," he is holding the kids hostage by insisting that, as the Beacon reports, "The schools would only receive the money if they agreed to use it to restore sports programming – and nothing else."

Add this to the long list of reasons that the city would lose any Caruolo lawsuit -- if the city can "find" $1.3 million in its own budget, there's no reason it can't find more and properly fund the school department.