Let's be clear. Gray Davis didn't create this situation. California schools began to sink 20 years ago when the same nimrods who now want to chop up L.A. brought us Proposition 13, thinking money is better spent on kitchen remodeling than on public education.
They still think that budgets are for the "little people", and living within your means is a unwarranted limitation of government power. . .
Davis could easily find money to at least fix the toilets, install air conditioning, fumigate the classrooms and buy the textbooks....which was the very argument made by the "nimrods" over 20 years ago during the Prop. 13 campaign. The money is there; greedy politicians like Davis have refused to spend it on schools.