Schools not counting chickens as they await stimulus money

Call it a mathematics proposition: you shouldn’t count your chickens until they’re hatched.With that in mind, city school superintendent Bruce Newlin said he does not know how much of the federal government’s latest stimulus money will trickle down to the Hermosa Beach City School District, with its 1,300 students in kindergarten through eighth grade.If state officials divide up the money based on the number of students per school, and pass it all along to the counties and thence t