THEÂ administration has yet to remit over $4.7 million to the Public School System, PSS Finance Director Arlene Lizama said during a recent Board of Education meeting.
Board of Education Vice Chairman Herman Atalig, left, speaks while Chairman Andrew Orsini listens during a BOE meeting on Capital Hill Thursday.
Photo by Emmanuel T. Erediano
In related news, U.S. Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan said he has introduced three bills in the U.S. House of Representatives that would provide more federal funding to CNMI education.
On Thursday, Lizama told the BOE that the CNMIÂ government was supposed to have transferred to PSS a total of $8 million by Jan. 27 based on the fiscal year 2021 budget or Public Law 21-35.