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Sweetheart deals, including golden pensions have come home to roost in the government schools of the Bay Area.
"Sixteen of 38 districts in Alameda and Contra Costa counties are projecting deficits by 2012 that they will be unable to cover without slashing their budgets. Federal stimulus money lessened the effect of last year's deep state cuts. However, as those one-time funding boosts run out, school leaders are considering more drastic measures to balance the books, such as closing schools, laying off teachers and librarians and increasing class sizes.
"It's going to get ugly," said Mike McMahon, an Alameda school district trustee."
is it time to change the laws, so that illegal aliens can no longer get free education in this country?
Is it time to end the monopoly of the unions over the classrooms?
Maybe it is time for business people, not professional educators to be put in charge.
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"Sixteen of 38 districts in Alameda and Contra Costa counties are projecting deficits by 2012 that they will be unable to cover without slashing their budgets. Federal stimulus money lessened the effect of last year's deep state cuts. However, as those one-time funding boosts run out, school leaders are considering more drastic measures to balance the books, such as closing schools, laying off teachers and librarians and increasing class sizes.
"It's going to get ugly," said Mike McMahon, an Alameda school district trustee."
is it time to change the laws, so that illegal aliens can no longer get free education in this country?
Is it time to end the monopoly of the unions over the classrooms?
Maybe it is time for business people, not professional educators to be put in charge.
More...