Posted on 04/29/2010 9:02:22 AM PDT by lulu16
As if by blackmail, the AZ legislatures want us to vote on a 18% sales tax that will cover the teachers that they have given pink slips and the schools they have closed. The Goldwater Institute has made a 28 second commercial that shows the meaningless and silly spending cuts they have yet to make.
How do you justify a Human Nature Dance Theater and a Bread Museum when we have such a huge budget short fall?
It is the same old song, waste and fraud, waste and faud. Don't let them sing their sad song, when kids' welfare is lower on their list than keeping the Stallion Awards going.
If I was a fan of public schools, I would cut all funding for all extracurricular activities to save money.
These propositions are always framed in the “If you are against this then you are against education and don't care about kids.” Such is, as you know, FAR from the truth.
The bureaucracy surrounding public education is what is killing education in general. In Tucson, for example, the Tucson Unified School District budget for 2009 showed over $360 Million in revenues. Of that nearly 20% went to employee benefits. Another 19% went to non-classroom employee salaries. Only 6% went to classroom supplies. 22% of the budget went to student transportation and “Desegregation”.
“Desegregation” you ask? That's right. More than $59 Million taxpayer dollars were used to make sure that students were allocated to schools on a racially acceptable basis. Anyway....that's just an aside. Please note that the above figures account for more than $240 Million of the $360 Million revenue BUT DOESN'T INCLUDE EDUCATION OF EVEN ONE STUDENT!!!
There's no room to cut without hurting the children? Really?
AZ Voters need to make sure that Prop 100 gets voted down and that the school districts and school boards are held accountable for their reckless spending. When the AZ schools can get to the point where 2/3 of the budget goes to EDUCATION and 1/3 goes to support then they can feel free to come looking for more money but if tax dollars are going, 67%, to fund the bureaucracy then they can and should stick their request where the sun doesn't shine!!
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