Schwarzenegger declares budget emergency, proposes deep cuts - Latest News - sacbee.com: "Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled an $82.9 billion state spending plan today that calls for no tax hikes but envisions pay cuts for state workers, reductions in services to California's neediest residents - and on the benevolence of the federal government.
The governor also declared yet another fiscal emergency, and called for yet another special session of the Legislature, designed to keep a projected $19.9 billion budget deficit from growing by another $2.4 billion.
'We must begin our work immediately,' Schwarzenegger said in his message to legislators. 'If we fail to take action in the special session that I have called, our problem will only grow, and the decisions that will be required to make up for lost savings will grow even more difficult than those now before us.'"
Parents at PS 889 in Brooklyn speak out against DOE refusal to allow them
to lower class size which will lead to third grade classes of 33 students
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*Below are testimonies from last week's NYC Council Education budget
hearings by two parents at PS 889 in Brooklyn, by Ro White and Jessica
Kurtz, explai...
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