Posted on 04/16/2003 4:31:30 AM PDT by mtbrandon49
Education leaders: No tax cuts
By C.D. Kirkpatrick, The Herald-Sun April 15, 2003 8:15 pm
RALEIGH -- The state’s education leaders have asked the General Assembly and Gov. Mike Easley to rethink proposed education budget cuts, saying the systems cannot absorb them without damage to their ability to carry out their missions.
In a Monday letter, UNC system President Molly Broad, Department of Public Instruction Superintendent Mike Ward and Community College System President Martin Lancaster suggest lawmakers delay scheduled reductions in sales and income taxes.
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My wife works at a charter school and my son goes there. The public schools get twice the money a charter school does. They get a sum for operational expenses and then a sum for salaries. The charter school only gets the operational sum.They get by and have the same costs as a public school. I just want to know where all that extra money goes the public school gets. Hmm........
"The tax nazi's are at it again."
I am shocked... SHOCKED! that Ea$ley is thinking of cutting the education budget.
After all, in Ea$ley's impeccable grammar, "Four-year-olds don't have but one chance to be 4."
On the local High School scene, twenty per cent of the seniors will not be graduating this year. There is a reason for this, students were kept in school and promoted, to fill the seats and keep the daily per head money coming in.
Of those graduating, many have only a rudimentary eighth grade education.
He could keep the $ "For The Children".
MKM
Under the circumstances, a rather silly way to spend OUR money.
"No Tax Cuts"????? Geez, this kind of BS really gets my blood boiling.
Memo to elected NC Republicans -- you'd better oppose any and all of these tax increases. If you're complicit in raising taxes, why would the public buy a message of "oh, we wouldn't raise taxes if we were in the majority"??? Stand your ground and make it clear that you want no piece of this charade.
The last thing I recall is that the plans had either been killed or scaled back.
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