[NormsRevenge]

"I just see nothing but doom and gloom if we make major cuts," said Wayne Johnson, president of the California Teachers Association.

[NormsRevenge]

Mary Bergan, president of the California Federation of Teachers, said a midyear cut of $1.9 billion was equivalent to clipping two weeks off the end of the school year, laying off 35,000 teachers (about 1 in 10 statewide), or reducing per-pupil spending by $300.

What happened to the old "can do" attitude.. Do More with Less? Frickin' socialism addicts

[45Auto]

Despite all this heroic talk from the commie governor and the commie legislature, in the end NOTHING will be cut, but the shortfall will be made up on the backs of the already over-burdened citizens - at least those citizens who work. Then the rotten criminal/socialists can say, "Well, we sure solved that problem."

[Argus]

Mary Bergan, president of the California Federation of Teachers, said a midyear cut of $1.9 billion was equivalent to clipping two weeks off the end of the school year, laying off 35,000 teachers (about 1 in 10 statewide), or reducing per-pupil spending by $300.

At these prices, we could save the whole $30 billion by simply eliminating public schools altogether, and probably get a surplus. Of course the downside is, who will teach our young people tolerance, self-esteem, and how to put on a condom?

[thinktwice]

Free at last, free at last; home schooling freedom, here at last.

[cynicom]

Some rebubs still cannot acceot that the pubs won in CA.

[Thud]

They could fire every state employee and still be $6 billion in the hole. Fixing this will require major tax increases. Republican legislators will never vote for higher taxes and, as Republican votes are necessary to pass a budget by the necessary 2/3 majority, and, as state budgets must be balanced by law, and, as the people of California would rather die than change any of that,

The people of California will get their wish. They won't have a state government and they'll die.

Every bloody chicken there is will come home to roost at the same time. The voters, both party's legislators (Republican much more than Democratic due to gerrymandering) and governor are quite irresponsible, and we're getting hit by all sorts of external factors at once - faltering economy, unfunded federal mandates (which Republican congressmen love to foist on the states just as much as Democrats), etc.

Regretably I live here. I'm a trial court research attorney and my wife is just starting as a teacher now that our children are leaving for college - she's working part-time while finishing her credential work. We have one son at UC and another at Sonoma State. Our daughter is a high school senior, so we'll have three in college at the same time next fall. This will be brutal.

[GoldnGate]

I would love to see a "Campaign Video Of Grey Out Davis" talking to children in the classrooms ... and telling them how he is so much behind improving "California Education and Making it his top priority" ... then along side another video ... showing all the issues and programs he is now going to take away from these same children ..... "Stay Tuned for Film @ 11"

[MadIvan]

Gray had better watch himself. If he isn't careful, he may provoke another Proposition 13 type rebellion among California taxpayers.

Would be lovely if he did, however. ;)

Regards, Ivan

[Saundra Duffy]

LOL! The California State Employees Union endorsed Gray Davis for Governor. LOL!! They endorsed the guy who is going to cost STATE WORKERS their jobs. Today's newspaper says there will be THOUSANDS of state job cuts (not just hundreds like in the past). California needs to be a "right to work" state. P.S. We're doomed!

[Mr. Jeeves]

The "education" budget is $30 billion, $10 billion of which never leaves Sacramento. If one were looking for a place to start cutting, there it is.

[Mark]

All of these articles should have some additional information added, like a rewrite of this article( all figures made up guesses):

While Gov. Gray Davis, who gets paid $180,000.00 fine-tuned a plan he'll present today to shave $10 billion from California's growing deficit, advocates for schools, police, counties and cities spent Thursday unveiling "doom-and-gloom" scenarios they hope will spare them the knife.

Fearing $1.9 billion in cuts through June, educators called a news conference and talked of having to close schools early and lay off teachers, who gets paid $45,000.00 to $80,000.00/ SCHOOL YEAR . By the summer of 2004, some predicted, the governor would try to cut more than $4 billion from schools.

"I just see nothing but doom and gloom if we make major cuts," said Wayne Johnson, president of the California Teachers Association,who gets paid $130,000.00/ SCHOOL YEAR .

[I still care]

Presidential election map by county. Blue, of course, is Bush here.

[goldstategop]

Sounds just like a liberal. LMAO!