>New Jersey teachers hope federal funds restore raises
School officials in districts where teachers took wage freezes to save jobs want to know if they can use proposed federal stimulus money to restore raises for the 2010-11 school year. If not, they say, the districts and their employees would be punished financially for having taken the wage freeze the governor requested.
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