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Monday, March 10, 2003
posted by gbarto at 1:53 AM:
Democrats against Education: With state budgets tight, a lot of governors are looking to slash education spending. On the one hand, this makes sense: education is one of the biggest things the states are in charge of and often their biggest budget item. On the other hand, we're wondering why the Gray Davises and Jennifer Granholms of the world are getting a pass from liberal media for education cuts that would have prompted a media jihad against Republicans in the same statehouses. Indeed, Granholm's cuts (and particularly her reducing the state merit/need based general scholarship from $2500 to $500!) are far greater than anything Engler ever would have gotten away with (I don't think he even tried for anything comparable). Of course, there's an easy answer for why both of them would go this route: Unlike Republicans, they've got too many chits from union bosses to mess with government worker salaries to cut state budgets and entrenched teachers' unions to propose new formulae for replacing, say, three old teachers with five new ones (when the cost would be the same). On the other hand, lacking a financial stake in the contentedness about government workers, Republicans can work more effectively to stand by the people's interests.* * *
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