It's Official: Republicans Will See to Slashing School Budgets

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

The Sacramento Bee's Capitol Alert has an informative Q and A with the new Senate Republican Leader Dave Cogdill. In it, the Senate's new GOP chief makes it clear that schools are on the chopping block.
 
"What’s the biggest chunk you see out there -- something like here’s $800 million you can save, something large like that?

Cogdill: There are a number of those things. I don’t know that there’s anything that comes up to that large a single amount from any one area of the budget, but I do think that you definitely look at how we spend money on education in the state. Given the fact that, when you throw in higher education, it’s 50-60 percent of our spending.

So when you’ve got this type of budget problem, I don’t think you have any option but to look at the education sector of the budget. Given its size and the cumbersome nature of it, as it relates to categorical and other ways that we spend money, there’s got to be some opportunities there to find some savings."