Silly Rabbit, laws don't apply to Liberals....
Posted on 06/21/2009 11:22:27 AM PDT by blueplum
California voters said no, but Democratic lawmakers are pushing to do it anyhow.
The issue involves billions of dollars and a ballot measure so important to schools that the California Teachers Association spent more than $7 million in a failed attempt to pass Proposition 1B.
One month after the initiative died, Democrats are proposing to pay schools the same $7.9 billion that was the heart of the measure and to begin payments the same year, 2011-2012. snip-
The dispute over $7.9 billion stems from complex provisions of Proposition 98, approved by voters more than two decades ago to ensure a minimal level of funding for public schools and community colleges, generally about 40 percent of the state's general fund revenues.
Proposition 98 allows for the state to reduce its funding commitment under certain circumstances, such as a rocky economy, but it generally requires that any such funding gap be closed gradually as times get better.
Argument has arisen, however, over whether and to what extent the state is legally obligated to repay schools for lowering funding in years such as the one just ending, 2008-09, which has been marked by economic free fall.
Proposition 1B proposed paying schools the disputed $7.9 billion, but it would not have resolved the legal question about whether Proposition 98 requires such repayment.
Democrats now are proposing to do both: Pay the $7.9 billion – which has grown to about $9.8 billion – and clarify that schools are owed repayment under such circumstances. Legislation is being crafted for release next week.
The state owed schools an additional $1.4 billion in funding-gap obligations from a prior fiscal year, so the total tab under the Democrats' proposal would be about $11.2 billion, according to the Legislative Analyst's Office.
Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has taken no position.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
The vote is NO and the communists do whatever they want.
California voters said no, but Democratic lawmakers are pushing to do it anyhow.
The vote is NO and the communists do whatever they want.
California voters said no, but Democratic lawmakers are pushing to do it anyhow.
The vote is NO and the communists do whatever they want.
California voters said no, but Democratic lawmakers are pushing to do it anyhow.
The vote is NO and the communists do whatever they want.
vote them all out
We already know that neither money nor class size has any effect on the quality of education.
Time to get rid of the unions and start firing teachers that can’t teach. En masse!
I remember Arnie floating this idea months ago, but no one in the media called him on it. Democrats, as the criminals they are, believe those least capable of managing their fiscal affairs should have dibs on any unapportioned revenues. California is now officially a parasite of the Union.
LOL!
The day is going to come when CA state taxpayers begin to say NO when it comes to paying their taxes.
CA voters may have said no on the spending initiative, but the majority of CA voters elected the pols who now are crapping on the them.
Silly Rabbit, laws don't apply to Liberals....
Are those who pay for government a larger or smaller portion than those who live off of government?
If it's the latter, voting may not get them out of office.
The teachers may have their hands tied if there is a shortage of cucumbers or condoms.
The budget crisis does have a silver lining. It has exposed Sacramento as being more responsive to labor unions then the citizens. It is time to vote them all out of office.
they realize that... the individual will get voted out, but the party is still in control.
and in typical liberal fashion... they know better then the voters, which are just not educated enough
Voters are too ignorant to be permitted decision making power over their own lives, or of course, those of their families. The arrogance and self-importance of the left is breathtaking. And Miss Ahnahld Shriver? He has no position...until Maria tells him what it is.
How exactly do you “repay” money for classes that ended 5 years prior? Many of the students are graduated and gone.
I guess the only way is to pay it out in bonuses or backpay to the teachers and their unions.
Nah, they couldn’t be that greedy...
That's the bottom line. If enough people simply stop paying, the CA govenment doesn't have enough resources to go after them all.
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