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Cuomo fails public schools
- 09-30-2011
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Op-Ed by Billy Easton/The Nation (Subscription needed)
Billy Easton is executive director of Alliance for Quality Education in NY
As nearly 50 million students return to public school classrooms across the country this month, most of them will find larger class sizes, less music and arts, reductions in college preparatory Advanced Placement classes, cuts in the numbers of guidance counselors and librarians. In all, thirty-four states have cut public school budgets. Republicans like Wisconsin’s Scott Walker and Michigan’s Rick Snyder have been lightning rods for progressive organizing in response to Tea Party–inspired budgets, which slash social spending while letting corporations and the wealthy off the hook. But are Democrats getting a pass on the same policies? (more...) [pdf]
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