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To: deeno who wrote (12722)	8/20/2003 5:04:51 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Well Deeno, Davis tried to do that. He tried to cut funding to PALO ALTO schools. Palo Alto is a wealthy school district is it not, so you'd think the "no new taxes" crowd would be ok with cuts since they are the ones crying about waste. Basically, what we have in california is- - a bunch of voters who don't want to pay anymore taxes - a bunch of voters who refuse to accept any kind of service cuts whats that spell? D-E-F-A-U-L-T Senate Panel OKs Plan To Let Wealthy Schools Keep Most Tax Revenue. Lawmakers took a small but significant step this week toward gutting Gov. Gray Davis' plan to seize property tax dollars from basic-aid school districts such as Palo Alto and Santa Clara. A Senate budget subcommittee has agreed to take $17.8 million in state aid from these typically wealthy school districts, but would allow them to keep $126.2 million in local money. State Sen. Byron Sher, D-San Jose, who represents 19 basic-aid districts, said the committee's unanimous vote Monday "sends a strong message to the administration and the entire Legislature that these education funding reductions would devastate basic-aid school districts and are therefore unacceptable." Mercury News (3/12)