April 9, 2005

• Some new things going on in the Department of Education.  I just found out that the Superintendent received his Bachelors in History.  The natural thing for me to do is to invite him to a History Day competition.  More importantly though, the continuing attack on the budgets of education here in California is ridiculous.  I received a call asking how one commercial could say that the Governor cut the budget on education and the one right after say that he raised it by $3 billion? 

  
  

  Here's the run down, as far as how I understand it.  Governor Schwarzenegger took money away from education of about $2 billion, saying he would restore the normal funding according to Proposition 98, which guaranteed minimum funding for schools and pay it back this year.  That means he would give the regular $59 billion on top of the $2 billion he took away.  He hasn't though.  He gave $50 billion, short of minimum funding and isn't paying back the $2 billion.  The result?  A shortage of $7 billion.  Do the math.  So yes, he put a lot of the budget towards education.  But he's not putting enough.  Of course schools will close down.  There isn't enough funding. 

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