OROVILLE — The Butte County Office of Education announced Tuesday it rescinded layoff notifications to about 400 employees who were included in a workforce reduction in July because of withheld federal education funding.

BCOE Communications Officer Travis Souders said the California Department of Education provided an award calculation Friday for education funding that was previously frozen by the federal government, allowing it to reinstate about 400 BCOE employees in its Migrant Education and California Mini-Corps programs.

The two programs were interrupted when the federal government withheld Title I-C appropriations past a July 1 deadline — about $22 million in promised funds not being delivered. As a result, BCOE was forced to issue layoff notices on July 2 to affected employees, ac

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