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Thursday, January 28, 2010

The Educated Guess PPIC poll: Tax us to protect K-12 schools


The Educated Guess


PPIC poll: Tax us to protect K-12 schools

Two-thirds of adults surveyed in a Public Policy Institute of California poll say they support higher taxes to maintain funding for K-12 schools. And a full 82 percent, including a majority of Republicans polled, oppose cutting K-12 education to reduce the state budget deficit.  No other part of state spending comes close to engendering such support in the poll, which was released Wednesday.
Gov.  Schwarzenegger should keep those numbers in mind, because they’ll only go up  in coming months, as school districts lay out next year’s severe budget cuts and, in March, when they send out layoff notices to teacher (Read more and comment on this post)