Posted on 10/31/2012 9:52:31 AM PDT by SmithL
As the political odds turn against Proposition 30, Gov. Jerry Brown's tax measure, political insiders are turning their attention, however reluctantly, to the fallout should, indeed, voters reject the sales and income tax hike on Tuesday.
The measure would deliver $6 billion a year in new revenues and should it fail, Brown and the Legislature have already passed $6 billion in so-called "trigger cuts" that would be imposed, overwhelmingly on K-12 schools.
So that would seem to be that. But it's not.
As Brown campaigns – with increasing desperation – for the measure, he insists that were it to fail, he'd refuse to sign legislation changing the trigger cuts to schools. But he has to say that, because the threat to schools is the core of his pitch to voters.
Whether he really would stand pat on the triggers is, therefore, problematic. Brown has never let a seemingly solid public position preclude changing his mind when political winds shift.
What we do know is that his allies in the educational establishment, especially unions such as the California Teachers Association, have no intention of meekly accepting the trigger cuts, even if most school districts have already built that worst-case scenario into their current budgets.
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Party!
If the cuts effect the schools (K-12), then the only ones who will suffer are the children of Illegal Aliens...
Politicians sold their souls and the state to unions, now it’s time to pay the piper.
Sounds like home schooling is gonna get a big boost.
At least a third of the tenured union teachers should be pink-slipped to save money, and about half the administrative staff should be laid off, as well.
In the good old days, when students graduated and could read, write and do math, there were 30-40 students per class. Before the scoring was dumbed down, legitimate SAT scores peaked in 1964. Taxpayers are getting shafted by the education industry. Any other monopoly producing such an inferior product would have been broken up long ago.
The clique in control in California uses elections the same way the European Union does - to simply confirm decisions they have already made.
If the plebes somehow do not confirm their decisions? Well, its a temporary embarrassment, but it will not stop them from implementing their plans.
I sent my ballot in with a no vote to prop 30. Every election Sacramento asks for money, promising cuts to public safety or schools, and I think voters are sick of it.
Amazing that when financial crunch time comes they can only seem to be able to cut things that the public actually uses and wants or needs.
No cuts to ‘advisory boards’ political patronage “jobs” where you meet a couple times a month and pull down a salary around $100,000. A printout of these boards in California goes for pages and pages.
No cuts to the so called bullet train to nowhere. No way, the bribes have already been paid. The politically connected will NOT go without this Christmas!
No cuts to the thousand and one silly and stupid things the California government does, nope - first up on the cutting block is schools, police and fire!
Even the federal government has gotten in on the act and seems to justify ever expanding FEDERAL government based upon schools police and fire - despite these being a STATE responsibility and the federal government (only recently) chipping in only a nominal amount.
Sick!
Prop 30 had better fail.
I’m outraged.
My granddaughter’s 8th grade English and History teachers are campaigning in their classrooms!
Both have signs (bumper stickers) taped to the chalk boards.
bttt
Offering the entire K-12 curriculum online, including proficiency exams?
Closing down the Sacramento offices of the state education department and rotating the minimal necessary work back out to regional offices closer to the school systems served?
Require proof of legal US residence from all students enrolled?
No, there has been no serious attempt to control education spending - and there never will be under a Democrat administration.
NO on 30, yes to 32 and no to that death penalty “guilt” prop. But I’m sure all these would be for naught as the faggot marriage prop no demonstrated even though it passed, you can expect another idiot liberal judge to overturn them.
I graduated from high school in Northern California in 1958. At that time, California schools were first in the nation and my high school prided itself in having the highest percentage of it’s graduates going on to Cal and Stanford, How far we have fallen!
Oh, the folly of passing a budget last summer that simply ASSUMED the passage of this proposition.
Even lefty Californians have rejected most new sales-tax hikes and extensions lately, making this assumption all the more stupid.
Prop 38, which is even worse than Prop 30 re: raising taxes, is going down in a crushing defeat according to the latest polls I’ve seen.
Both have signs (bumper stickers) taped to the chalk boards.
That is illegal. California law says:
"No school district or community college district funds, services, supplies, or equipment shall be used for the purpose of urging the support or defeat of any ballot measure or candidate, including, but not limited to, any candidate for election to the governing board of the district."
This prohibition includes posting any campaign material in the classroom, unless campaign material for both sides are posted.
You're right to be outraged, but I'd go further. Have your granddaughter get a few pictures on a cell phone, making sure that some of the pictures show enough context to rule out any contention that it is some OTHER classroom.
Thereafter, I'd call, in a sweet-as-pie manner, for the school's principal and ask whether this is legal, proper, etc. With any luck, not only will the electioneering disappear (for awhile), but you'll also catch the teacher in a lie when s/he denies to the principal that the bumper sticker was ever displayed. You'll have the contrary proof!
You haven't seen how things work at the schools. A co-worker who lives in the ritzy Scripps Ranch community of San Diego learned first hand. She pays huge property taxes and thought her neighborhood school would be a good quality place. When her daughter started school, she paid a visit. Her daughter was sitting at a desk in the hallway. The illegal alien kids (barely literate in English) were inside the classroom. She had to find a private school and pay the full cost to get her daughter educated while the illegals feasted on the tax money extracted from her for no benefit to her own child.
Prop 30 fixes nothing except the teacher's underfunded pensions. It will do nothing for the classrooms. The problem is the present of illegitimate interlopers in the classroom.
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