Budgets and bilinguals
by Ryan Almodovar
It’s a scene that’s unfortunately become all too familiar across the United States. The ubiquitous and ever infamous ‘budget cut’ has become an integral part of our economy, not just on a federal level, but at the state and city level as well.
In my native Pennsylvania, we saw the reigns of governance handed from Democrat Ed Rendell to Republican Tom Corbett, and with that the ‘B.C’ word is a part of our daily vocabulary. Since Corbett took office, one of his large targets has been education, with funding being cut to the state university system and public schools like never before, facilitating a broken education system that rewards schools that have the ability to help themselves, and punish the ones that are barely hanging on.
My city school district is one of these. Board meetings were held, the public complained, and as predicted, the school board kept a sympathetic ear, presumably only because these cuts were long coming. The final count
