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Biggest possible saving = Eliminate the education "administrators" (Those who do NOT teach) who consume one-half the education budget.

[daviddennis]

I visited a school about a week ago, because I had business with the school administrators.

The place looked, and felt, like a jail.

Based on what I saw, I'd be comfortable cutting the budget of the LAUSD to $0. My contacts weren't bad people, but it's clear from even brief conversations that the fish rots from the head, and there is no saving it.

Incidentally, the far superior Santa Monica/Malibu and Las Virgienes (Calabasas) school districts are so much better than LAUSD (even in a very affluent area) that it's not even funny. Both school districts spend LESS per pupil than the LAUSD.

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Amerigo, what would you do at this point? The bond is essentially an attempt to legalize what Gray Davis already did, not new money for Arnold's budget. If he doesn't pass it, we have to chop government way more than anyone in the legislature's going to tolerate.

I don't particularly like it, but I think the massive tax increase that's the main alternative would be even worse.