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Vegas finds money for NFL team but not state schools
Nevada taxpayers will pay $750m to move Raiders from Oakland

Las Vegas will stump up $750 million in public money to lure NFL franchise the Raiders from Oakland, just a year after slashing state school funding by $14m.

Clark County school officials voted in April 2016 to increase class sizes and were forced to close a school for atrisk students due to there being “no money.”

“This is the last thing we ever want to do,” Linda Young, president of the school board, said at the time.

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