History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
NEW REPORT: Los Angeles' road to A-G for all
Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Amid the havoc, K-12 relatively spared for now
- 05-17-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
In his revised budget, Gov. Schwarzenegger is not suggesting any more cuts to K-12 schools than he proposed in January. But that should provide little comfort or confidence to school districts. They’ll likely spend the summer watching a stalemate in Sacramento while worrying whether the school budgets they’ll set in June, using the governor’s revised state budget in May, will turn out to be too high. There’s a good chance they will be – even with the big spending cuts they’ll already include. There are ugly choice out there. If the Legislature agrees to Schwarzenegger’s plan to eliminate CalWORKS, the state’s primary welfare program, providing day care and living expenses for a million children, and cut state-subsidized child care for 142,000 children, then the state’s most vulnerable children will be thrown into chaos. (more...)
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