The Republican Assault on Education
can be seen in the contents of a proposed Continuing Resolution introduced late. Friday night by the House Republican Leadership. Alyson Klein of Education Week presented the education cuts in this blog post, upon which I am relying.
It is important to realize several things. First, as with any cuts in the CR, the fiscal year began October 1st, so the impact of percentage cuts carries even greater impact. Second, states and local school authorities are currently struggling to balance their budgets, and were already proposing cuts - in most cases severe, in some cases massive and catastrophic - based on their loss of revenue. In almost all cases they presumed the revenue