Public Ed willing to give back to help balance budget
Posted by Tom on September 18th, 2008The legislature will be called into special session to reduce the current year’s budget by about $200 million. (See senatesite.com, SLTrib)
If I may be so bold as to make a suggestion, I suspect few in education would miss the $1 million appropriation for UPSTART (from the controversial SB2 second substitute, line 1108), which provides for Waterford a contractor to provide computers and software to preschoolers. This proposition hinges on the expectation that without the appropriation, the code describing the program would be rendered unenforceable.
Seeing as how UPSTART initially failed when it was on its own in a single-subject bill (HB 200 S1), I suspect there may also be a few legislators that wouldn’t be sorry to see it go …
Tom,
I’m curious if you’ve heard back from any legislators on Public Ed’s generous offer to help with the budget crunch.
Thanks for still being around! You’re blog is always a favorite.
Left by Jeremy on September 23rd, 2008