Guest commentary: Proposed budget cuts would hurt Placer schools - FARCE
Posted by "Pat Buchanan, Jr." on March 14, 2008 at 06:26 PM
By Gayle Garbolino-Mojica –
Published 12:00 am PDT Thursday, March 13, 2008
Story appeared in SOUTH PLACER ROSEVILLE section of the SacBee, Page G5
This sad story of poor, whiney school officials doesn’t tell both sides.
“In Placer County, our districts stand to lose more than $25 million in general fund revenue and another $8 million in categorical funding, for a total of $33 million in loss of revenue. That equates to about $580 less per-student funding for our county.”
Oh please! Every time state budget cuts come up the schools and firemen all scream bloody murder. Schools are very top heavy with administrators getting 6 figure salaries; almost 100% job security, a pension, etc etc while the private sector pays for this. What Garbolino won’t tell you is that she (or a close relative) is in the teaching profession, or related, so there’s a conflict of interest. Also she fails to let the reader know that by law, over 50% of the entire state budget of CA is earmarked for K-12 alone. This doesn’t include all the money going to the community colleges, the California State Univ or the University of California campuses. It’s almost a scam folks the amount of money the taxpayers of this state throws at education. Any yet we don’t get much for our money. Please be smart and informed about this issue and don’t fall for these fear stories in the media. The schools of CA do very well for themselves monetarily and the budget already reflects that to a fault.
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