Budget Agreement Brings Hard Times to Schools

by Randy Shaw via Beyond Chron

Thu, Feb 26, 2009 7:20AM

Thursday, February 26, 2009 : Hard times have definitely come to California. An early analysis from the California Budget Project reports that the new budget deal includes $14.9 billion in spending cuts, a huge chunk of which are coming from education, assistance for the poor, and transportation. Earlier in the week the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) estimated the cut to San Francisco’s schools alone at about $50 million.

Our budget process is irrefutably broken and our tax structure is regressive and out of date. Our financial system makes it difficult, some might say impossible, for us to address modern economic realities and meet our collective needs. The budget that elected officials in Sacramento finally agreed to is testament to this and much more.

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