Schwarzenegger Attacks Education—Again

by Paul Hogarth via Beyond Chron

Thu, Jan 15, 2009 7:57AM

Thursday, January 15, 2009 : As this article was being written, Governor Schwarzenegger was no doubt adding the final touches to his state of the state address scheduled for Thursday at 10am, a speech that without even being heard, we can assume articulates a plan to once again go after public education funding. His public statements about the budget crisis and his budget proposals have all offered the same ludicrous solution—raiding public school funding in order to maintain tax relief for corporations and wealthy individuals.

Schwarzenegger has several prongs to his fiscal assault on schools this year. The backbone of this attack is the newest incarnation of his regularly effort to decimate Proposition 98, the legislation that requires a baseline amount of funding for schools, tying that amount to the state’s budget health. Proposition 98 has several formulas that are used to determine that amount, formulas that are chosen depending upon the economic climate and that have implications for the amount of funding the state is obligated to given schools the subsequent year. Needless to say, Schwarzenegger is trying to minimize what that number will be.

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