The Times-Picayune reported that, under Mr. Jindal's new university budget figures, state funding at Louisiana State University would drop from $3,500 per undergraduate to $660 per undergraduate.
Faced with those sobering figures, LSU President and Chancellor F. King Alexander announced that his administration had begun the process of declaring financial exigency--essentiall an academic bankruptcy.
Higher education officials in Louisiana say that 16-20 more campuses are considering following LSU's example.
what eye thynk: I'm guessing that Bobby is no longer opposed to Republicans being known as the party of stupid.
In 2014, Kansas' Supreme Court ruled that cuts Governor Brownback had approved in school funding were unconstitutional. They said the cuts reduced educational spending to a level so low it violated adequacy requirements in Kansas' constitution. In order to satisfy that decision, Governor Brownback passed a $129 million education bill, which was quickly dismissed as an "accounting gimmick." Legislative members said the governor was simply removing funds from one district and giving them to other districts.
While many public schools remained underfunded, Mr. Brownback approved a tax break for corporations who donated scholarship money to private schools.
This year, in an attempt to cover state budget shortfalls that are even larger than expected, the governor informed school districts that some of the money that had been allocated would not be released to them. Then, just a few short weeks ago, he signed another bill that cut school funds by another $51 million.
So how bad are things in Kansas? In March, two school districts announced they would be closing weeks early this year because they have run out of funds to continue operating. Shortly after Mr. Brownback signed the additional cuts, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported that four more districts said they would also have to shorten their school year due to lack of funds.
Early school closings are preferable to reinstating higher taxes on Kansas' corporations and/or the wealthy because, as any good Republican knows, corporations and the wealthy are the ones keeping the economy going. May I offer the opinion that, if the present situation in Kansas is any indication, they are doing an incredibly crappy job.
State Representative Todd Courser (R) is urging his fellow Republicans not support a budget bill currently being considered because it funds childcare and public education and he believes those places are nothing more than locations where the U.S. government "re-engineers" America's children.
He voiced his outrage on his Facebook page: "Calling all true pro-lifers! Lots of reasons to vote against this coming budget...it of course increases...money for gubmint (sic) child's care (sic) centers (government re-engineering centers)...more for education..."
Mr. Courser, whose own children are home-schooled, also used Facebook to complain about several bills proposed in the Michigan Senate that he said would create regulations for families who home-school. (The bills do not, in fact, regulate anything. They are designed as a way for home-school students to earn STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) endorsements through on the job type training. It is a sort of home-school "extra credit" offer, not a requirement.
When you're a Republican, you just can't start dumbing them down early enough. Get 'em young, keep 'em stupid, feed the GOP machine!
and this behavior (by Republicans) is news how?
ReplyDeleteIt's all part of the republican plan-- keep people stupid, which makes them easier to manipulate with fear and hatred. That accounts for their bizarre position of being anti abortion AND anti sex ed/birth control. More single moms = more low wage workers, more kids brought up in poverty. They want to eliminate the middle class (fickle voters) and raise a society of proles.
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