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California schools move closer to doomsday
- 03-30-2011
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Blog by Kathryn Baron/Thoughts on Public Education
On Tuesday Gov. Jerry Brown called off negotiations with Republican lawmakers that were aimed at putting the tax extension up for a statewide vote in June. This move pretty much crushes any chances of sparing public schools from even deeper cuts for the next school year. “Each and every Republican legislator I’ve spoken to believes that voters should not have this right to vote unless I agree to an ever changing list of collateral demands,” Brown said in a statement posted on his website. Those demands were included in a nearly five-page list presented to Brown by Republican leaders and published by the Los Angeles Times. Brown said some of the proposals would worsen the state’s financial crisis and he will not support them. (more...)
Also: Los Angeles Times
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