Christie Scissorhands gets to work cutting up New Jersey schools

from the NY Times:



New Jersey Schools Brace for Cuts

By WINNIE HU
Published: April 2, 2010


Public schools in Montclair, N.J., would lay off as many as 70 teachers, including reading and math specialists, and would no longer offer French and Spanish classes in elementary grades.

Westfield would not be able to buy library books or replace aging computers, and a popular middle school tradition — the fall play — could disappear.

Cresskill could see class sizes climb to 35 students in middle and high schools, it may charge students a fee to play high school sports, and it could eliminate middle school athletic teams.

The three districts and others like them across New Jersey have long attracted families because they offer some of the best public education in the state. But now many of these top school systems are preparing to reduce the academic and extracurricular opportunities that have long set them apart.

Gov. Christopher J. Christie, striving to close a budget deficit that he says is about $11 billion, has proposed reducing direct aid to nearly 600 districts by an amount equal to as much as 5 percent of their operating budgets. Overall school aid for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1, would fall to $10.3 billion, from $11.1 billion this fiscal year. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/education/03njschools.html?hpw

what will happen if we let more republicans win.
Christie is only getting started.

VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS!


mark

...like access to health care, and retirement savings, have value per se when possessed, but they gain added value when one possesses them and other people do not; and more when one is seen to possess them when others do not.

When they have what I have -- and in America, you are what you own -- then I am no different from them.

Status anxiety, as much as simple greed stinginess, is to blame for Republicans' fixation on cutting social provision.

One of he commentators on MSNBC had a teacher from NJ on who was in an ad the Education Department had made. Christie cut taxes for people who made over $400,000 a year, amounting to $850 million. This is the amount he cut from the Education budget. The teachers are complaining that schools are being made to pay for the tax cut to NJ wealthiest group. Isn't that just like a republican.