A stimulating budget question

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by David Safier
I finally got around to reading Steve Farley's email, posted below by Blue Meanie. It's a depressing document if ever there was one.

It reads like that old joke where someone is consoling a friend about his recent round of bad luck. "Look on the bright side, my friend, it could always be worse." And the next day, sure enough, it was.

According to Farley, along with the rest of the carnage, the Rs plan to pull the plug on the education funding agreed to unanimously on the first day of the special session.

That unanimous agreement we reached on the first day of this special session is completely and utterly betrayed. All increases are rolled back and the draconian cuts of the Republican Legislative budget of June 30 are re-imposed, and K-12 schools would lose their 2% inflation increase for the next three years.

My understanding is, getting stimulus funds for education from the Feds is contingent on the state not cutting education funding. I also seem to remember that the Feds released the stim funds soon after the legislature passed the ed budgeting.

If I've got this wrong, someone please correct me. But if I'm right, don't the Feds have the obligation to yank back the funds, since the state went back on its part of the deal?

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2 thoughts on “A stimulating budget question”

  1. There has to be a maintenance of effort – I believe they can’t cut below funding from before they got the funding.

    What is also interesting is that the money is suppose to be used for certain things like improving the state education system. I wonder if anyone like Brewer, Horne, or Martin are paying attention. Probably not, based on the mistakes they have made already.

  2. As a Stupid White Male educated in The Government run Public School System in Tucson explain to me the article in the Arizona Daily Star INCREASED funding to Private Schools by the State?

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