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No-bid practice for funding school projects found illegal

July 16, 2015 Updated: July 16, 2015 7:24pm in San Francisco Chronicle

Billions of dollars in California school construction projects are in legal limbo after a state appellate court ruling determined the no-bid contract used to hire a construction firm in a Central Valley school district — a kind of contract found in districts across the state — was illegal.