State Schools Chief Jack O’Connell Comments on
Governor’s Proposed Budget For Fiscal Year 2008-09
SACRAMENTO – State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell released the following statement on Governor Schwarzenegger’s proposed budget for 2008-09:

“At a time when California must make substantial investment in schools in order for our young people to survive and succeed in the global economy, the Governor’s budget takes a giant step backward. I fear that the “year of education” will become the year of education evisceration. This budget will not help us close the achievement gap that threatens the futures of our students and our state. It will not help us effectively prepare the well-skilled workforce our state desperately needs to remain competitive. Continue reading story

Governor's budget would be a major setback for schools
'Staggering' cuts trouble educators

By Bruce Lieberman, Sherry Saavedra and Tanya Sierra STAFF WRITERS
January 13, 2008

SAN DIEGO – The budget cut respite, if there ever was one, is over.
Public school officials said Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed cuts in education funding for 2008-09 would reach deep into classrooms. Continue reading story

GOVERNOR'S BUDGET PROPOSAL K-12 EDUCATION
Nanette Asimov Friday, January 11, 2008

PROPOSAL: The governor wants an immediate cut of $360 million from K-12 schools and $40 million from community colleges, although their combined share of this year's deficit is far more - $1.4 billion. For next year, he wants to suspend Proposition 98, the voter-approved law that guarantees a minimum level of school funding. That would mean withholding $4 billion from kindergarten through community colleges. Under his proposal, schools and community colleges would get $39.6 billion from the state's general fund instead of the $43.6 billion owed under Prop. 98. Continue reading story

Dan Walters: Walking on eggshells about taxes
By Dan Walters - dwalters@sacbee.com
Published 12:00 am PST Sunday, January 13, 2008

Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez performed a neat verbal trick the other day in response to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's vow to make deep spending cuts to close a massive deficit in the state budget.
Núñez, in a broadcast message after Schwarzenegger's State of the State speech, essentially called for raising taxes to protect services without ever mentioning the T-word.
"We are challenging Governor Schwarzenegger and our Republican colleagues to join us in reshaping the conversation

 Education Coalition Statement on Governor’s 2008-09 Budget Proposal

January 11, 2008

The Education Coalition, representing more than 1.7 million parents, teachers, school board members, school employees and administrators, released the following statement today on Governor Schwarzenegger’s proposed 2008-09 state budget.
“The Education Coalition appreciates the extraordinary challenges the governor faces  Continue reading story

Governor’s Proposed Budget Cuts Billions from Public Schools and Decimates Minimum School Funding Law

CTA President Says Students Didn’t Create Budget Crisis

January 10, 2008
BURLINGAME – David A. Sanchez, president of the 340,000-member California Teachers Association, issued this statement on the governor’s proposed state budget released today:
“The governor’s proposed budget is a giant step backwards for our students. It’s disappointing and ironic that in the proclaimed ‘year of education’ the governor is talking about cutting billions from our public schools and decimating our  Continue reading story

Statement from CTA President David A. Sanchez on Governor’s 2008 State of the State Address

January 08, 2008
“It’s disappointing and certainly ironic that in the proclaimed ‘year of education,’ the governor is talking about cutting  Continue reading story

 ACSA STATEMENT ON GOVERNOR'S 2008-09 BUDGET PROPOSAL

Posted: January 11, 2008
Author: ACSA Communications Department

The 16,500-member Association of California School Administrators is strongly opposed to the Governor's 2008-09 budget proposal released yesterday.
“We stand firm in our support for Proposition 98 and the funding it provides for the basic needs of students and schools,” said ACSA President Bob Lee. “Budget cuts to education and plans to suspend Prop. 98 are fundamentally inconsistent  Continue reading story

Year of Education, still
Budget cuts or not, a few inexpensive measures could vastly improve California's schools.

January 12, 2008
The year of education went flatter than a sheet of three-hole notebook paper in the few minutes it took Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to cover schools in his State of the State speech. But the budget crisis is no excuse for shrinking his once-grand plans to a couple of modest initiatives. Schwarzenegger has plenty of reasons to move forward now.
For starters, he has some good ideas already at his fingertips, courtesy of his own committee on education. Many of the best recommendations don't involve Continue reading story