School Beat: Arnold strikes again

05-20-2010

By Lisa Schiff/San Francisco Beyond Chron

Governor Schwarzenegger submitted his revised budget May 14th and the only good thing about it is that it’s his last one. The “Governator” has made one final effort to destroy as many social programs as possible including public education where he is cutting the K-12 budget anywhere from just under $900 million to $1.5 billion, depending on who’s counting. And even with higher education, although he technically kept his bizarre pledge to increase funding for this sector, he did so at the cost of increased student fees, which can only reduce the overall effect. The California Budget Project (CBP) has provided an immediate “quick and dirty” analysis of the Governor’s proposal, which they are updating regularly. (more...)

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