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Post by The Great Aztec Joe on Sept 21, 2010 12:42:28 GMT -8
California Budget 79 Days Late: Many Not Getting Paid (snippet) Additionally, the state owes millions of dollars to the hundreds of vendors that provide food for prisons, fuel for the Highway Patrol and other goods and services to the state. Gupta, whose husband is unable to work because he had open heart surgery in May, said families with kids at the East Palo Alto school - most of them low-income - have stepped up to donate school supplies and other necessities. She wonders, though, how long teachers and administrators will be able to hold on without paychecks. "For now our daughter is helping us ... (but) how long can we go?" asked Gupta as she watched a class of preschool students play outside on a recent afternoon. "Everybody is still coming to work because if we don't come, these 200 parents won't be able to work either and it will just be worse. We pray that we will get a paycheck." Read more: Here.. www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/16/MN5P1FDA73.DTL#ixzz108fWx86d |
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Post by aztecwin on Sept 21, 2010 16:10:50 GMT -8
Meg Whitman proposes that legislators not get paid or their per diem when they can not pass a budget.
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Post by AlwaysAnAztec on Sept 22, 2010 7:03:29 GMT -8
Meg Whitman proposes that legislators not get paid or their per diem when they can not pass a budget. Actually, I'd propose that they become sequestered until a budget is passed. |
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Post by The Great Aztec Joe on Sept 22, 2010 7:31:03 GMT -8
You know that the most likely place to cut will be the schools (Again!) The University and State College system will receive BIG CUTS. They have already killed public education at the elementary and high school level all across the state. We are on the bottom when it comes to public education in this state.
I home schooled because I thought schools were s#!++y forty years ago. They are a lot worse now.
It is time to do away with public education in the lost state of California. Let's go to a voucher system. With a voucher system we could spend less than half of what we are presently spending per child, and have a better quality system. We could even turn the public schools over to the private schools and remove the expense of upkeep. No more janitors, no more teachers, no more substitutes, no more principals and their bloated staffs. Just quality education at half the cost.
California could actually start paying down its debt if it did so.
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Post by aztecwin on Sept 22, 2010 11:26:59 GMT -8
You know that the most likely place to cut will be the schools (Again!) The University and State College system will receive BIG CUTS. They have already killed public education at the elementary and high school level all across the state. We are on the bottom when it comes to public education in this state. I home schooled because I thought schools were s#!++y forty years ago. They are a lot worse now. It is time to do away with public education in the lost state of California. Let's go to a voucher system. With a voucher system we could spend less than half of what we are presently spending per child, and have a better quality system. We could even turn the public schools over to the private schools and remove the expense of upkeep. No more janitors, no more teachers, no more substitutes, no more principals and their bloated staffs. Just quality education at half the cost. California could actually start paying down its debt if it did so. Vouchers is one answer. |
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Post by AlwaysAnAztec on Sept 23, 2010 7:04:11 GMT -8
You know that the most likely place to cut will be the schools (Again!) The University and State College system will receive BIG CUTS. They have already killed public education at the elementary and high school level all across the state. We are on the bottom when it comes to public education in this state. I home schooled because I thought schools were s#!++y forty years ago. They are a lot worse now. It is time to do away with public education in the lost state of California. Let's go to a voucher system. With a voucher system we could spend less than half of what we are presently spending per child, and have a better quality system. We could even turn the public schools over to the private schools and remove the expense of upkeep. No more janitors, no more teachers, no more substitutes, no more principals and their bloated staffs. Just quality education at half the cost. California could actually start paying down its debt if it did so. Vouchers is one answer. Ya that would fix the public school system.  Lets take money we don't already have and give it to the rich to subsidize their kids private school education. NOT! |
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Post by aztecwin on Sept 23, 2010 19:53:24 GMT -8
Ya that would fix the public school system. Lets take money we don't already have and give it to the rich to subsidize their kids private school education. NOT! You don't get it! Vouchers would lower the overall cost of education and raise the level of education. |
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Lets take money we don't already have and give it to the rich to subsidize their kids private school education. NOT!