Schwarzenegger's bitter budget
, a teacher in California, looks at the facts about Arnold Schwarzenegger's new budget proposal--and explains how easy it would be to protect our schools.
February 1, 2010
"As bitter as the words are in my mouth, we face additional cuts...But I am drawing this line. Because our future economic well-being is so dependent upon education, I will protect education funding in this budget. And we can no longer afford to cut higher education either."
-- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, State of the State address, January 6, 2010
APPARENTLY, GOV. Arnold Schwarzenegger and I interpret the word "protect" differently, because two days later, he released his proposed 2010-11 budget that includes at least $1.8 billion in direct cuts to K-12 schools.
Did he raise our expectations just so that his actual announcement would hurt that much more? No wonder a new poll puts his popularity at 27 percent.