[quote=flu][quote=Oni Koroshi]Aside from the small sales tax increase, this won’t affect the income for most of us yet public education will benefit greatly which does affect all of us.[/quote]
It won’t do shit for public education.
Bookmark this thread and let’s compare notes in 2 years to see if your local public school are any better off 2 years from now…
Local schools know this…And that’s probably why there’s a bunch of local bond initiatives to fund schools locally.[/quote]
Not everything is so black and white. It’s about stopping the bleeding at this point and trying to stabilize things after these huge budget cuts to all programs.
With prop 30 passing we’ve avoided a “$150 increase in California State University fees per semester, $375 million in cuts to the University of California system and the elimination of $20 million in state aid to city police departments. An additional $80 million in cuts to various state departments could result in the closure of some CalFire stations, eliminate seasonal lifeguards at state parks, roll back some flood-control and boating safety programs, reduce the number of park rangers and curtail some services for the developmentally disabled.” http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/endorsements/la-ed-end-prop30-budget-cuts-20121102,0,6650069.story
We’ve been able to prevent a 3 week cut of the school year and other massive cuts to public schools and community colleges. While this isn’t going to directly make public education better, it will surely prevent it from getting much worse.
