Quote from Scataphagos:
Doesn't follow. Bilge. Stupid talk.
Do you have valid point to make?
You complain that the American voter is stupid,yet you support the party of cutting funding to education
http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_17681886?source=rss
Texas House committee passes budget with steep cuts
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A Texas House committee approved a bare-bones budget Wednesday that would make deep cuts to public education and health and human services over the next two years.
With no discussion or debate, the House Appropriations Committee adopted the 2012-2013 spending plan in an 18-7 vote that fell along party lines, with all Democrats present rejecting the measure.
The proposed budget calls for the state to spend $77.6 billion of its own funds over the two years. It would underfund public schools by almost $8 billion and Medicaid by $4 billion.
Under the proposal, schools would still be underfunded by about $800 per student. It still doesn't include money for full-day pre-kindergarten, teacher incentive pay, arts education and numerous other school programs.
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/state/senate-republicans'-budget-plan-cuts-education
PHOENIX - Senate Republicans' proposed state budget would have Arizona finish the current fiscal year with a shortfall but put the state back in the black in the next fiscal year with deeper spending cuts than Gov. Jan Brewer has proposed.
The plan's approximately $400 million of cuts beyond those proposed by Brewer include $172 million from K-12 schools, $65 million from universities and $67 million from health programs and social services.
Republicans Propose Education Cuts to Minimum Funding Levels
Among the $22 billion in proposed cuts by state Republicans today, close to half that, 10.6 billion, would be cut from K-12 schools and community colleges. "That would bring school funding to just about the minimum required by state law," the Sacramento Bee notes.
That funding level would be "the equivalent to shutting down the three largest school districts in the state, or over $1,300 a kid," according to Senate President Pro Tem and Democrat Darrell Steinberg. "That's no way to build for the future... "Republicans obviously don't think the time for ideology and posturing is over."