by David Safier During a teacher's meeting at an Arizona school this week, the teachers were told about some ideas being bounced around concerning the 2010 round of budget cuts for K-12 schools: Cuts of about $1,000 in spending per pupil. Salary cuts ranging from $4,00-6,000. Getting rid of the experience index for teacher salaries. … Read more
by David Safier From columnist Nicholas Kristof's blog: The effort to prune the stimulus package to make it more palatable to Republicans is focused on slashing money for education. The proposed cuts, by various accounts, include $40 billion to help states (in large part with education budgets), possibly $14 billion for Pell grants, and $14 … Read more
by David Safier Why bother with analysis when the quotes speak for themselves? Here's Russell Pearce as quoted in the Arizona Guardian: "If you want to get rid of something, you tax it. If you want to increase something, then deregulate and untax it," he said. The budget cuts made last week will not cause … Read more
by David Safier A week ago I spotlighted this comment from Jon Kavanagh about the effects of Republican's budget hatchet: "There are painful cuts but none are lethal, so it appears." I guess Kavanagh is enamored with his life-or-death analogy. In a form email he sent out Thursday to anyone who complained about the budget … Read more
by David Safier Nancy Young Wright (D, LD-26) doesn't mince words in a Capitol update to her constituents when she expresses her opinions about the budget cuts. In this excerpt, she addresses the rush to get the budget finished and signed, as well as the entire budget writing process. The rush to pass these cuts seems to … Read more