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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (240457)	3/10/2010 1:08:31 PM
From: BWAC	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 306849

Looks like most every State is in some sort of doomed or to be doomed scenario. Why? Cause their tax receipts are going down the drain. And how is that with such a recovering economy????? A lot of the States are cutting education budgets. Increasing class size by 20%. Cutting out middle school sports. Cutting out assistants in lower age grades. Firing longtime teachers. Reneging on contracts for higher education credentials = higher pay. Forcing teacher furloughs on what was scheduled as planning and continuing education or staff meeting days. Supply closets are empty. Science labs are doing theoretical rather than actual experiments cause supplies aren't in the budget. Mothballing semi-new schools and consolidating into old schools due to increased class sizes. Etc. So how is it that everything is so wonderful per the Fed Fools, Wall Street, and CNBS? How do they reconcile the worsening State budgets to the so called improving economy and consumer?? And is education not the way out for the lower and lower middle class? I thought education was a key priority? No child left behind? WTF? Whole country gone mad?