FL School District Looks For $21 Million To Cut

[tlcandie]

http://news.tbo.com/news/MGAELDCHRQD.html

<snip>
``We can lay off the rest of the aides,'' board member Carol Kurdell said Monday night. ``We could cut art and music in elementary school, but what does that do for the child? We want well-rounded students.''

``I don't have an answer this time,'' Kurdell said. ``Lord help us.''
<snip>




Coming to a school near you.... How long will our public school system be able to hold out before totally collapsing?

[lovedems]

1. First Texas, now Florida...

These bu$h's sure know how to destroy public education.

Dumb down the masses to match their own level of intelligence.

[UpInArms]

2. why in the world would they need to cut services in Florida

when Jeb says everything is coming up roses and more tax cuts are needed?

http://www.local10.com/news/2849537/detail.html

With Economy Rebounding, Tax Cuts Back On Republican Agenda

POSTED: 2:59 PM EST February 15, 2004
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- It's an election year and the economy's coming back. That makes a tax cut from the Republican Florida Legislature almost a certainty. Gov. Jeb Bush has proposed a return of the popular back-to- school-time break from the sales tax and the Senate and House are both likely to go along.

State Tax Cut Proposals At A Glance

Here are descriptions of two tax cut proposals before the Legislature:
Sales Tax Holiday (SB 1566)

Under a Senate proposal the 6 percent sales tax would not be collected on school supplies costing $10 or less from 12:01 a.m. July 24 through midnight Aug. 1, 2004. Also exempt from the tax would be all items of clothing, wallets or bags, backpacks, diaper bags costing $50 or less during the same period. Some items, including briefcases, suitcases and garment bags would still be taxed.


Intangibles Tax Cut (HB 791)

Florida levies a $1 tax on every $1,000 in stock, bond and mutual fund holdings outside of retirement accounts. Under a House proposal the tax rate would drop to 66 cents for every $1,000 of such "intangible personal property" next year and in 2006 the rate would drop to 33 cents for every $1,000 of holdings.



The governor is also seeking a final cut to the "intangible" tax on stock and bond holdings. Lawmakers have already dramatically cut the number of Floridians who have to pay the tax, and Bush has said he wants it gone altogether.


Bush said Florida leads the nation in job growth because of the more than $6 billion in tax cuts lawmakers have approved since he took office in 1999. "Lowering taxes spurs investment and growth in Florida," Bush said in January when he unveiled his proposed budget for the coming fiscal year. His plan includes tax cuts of $48 million from the sales tax holiday and $91 million from the reduction to the investment holdings tax.

...more...

[The Blue Knight]

3. My school district in Ohio has to cut $1.7 million.

Another school district in the northern part of the county is about to go bankrupt.

[carpediem]

6. he is punishing the voters for voting in class size reduction...

he was VERY MUCH against this resolution.

[Fla_Dem]

8. Not to mention

that the anti-smoking word must be gettingout as there is a lot less coming in from the tobacco tax.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

4. Hey - who needs art and music when there's Nascar?

That art and culture stuff is just Yuropean socialist sissy stuff anyways. Send all those kids to the races where they can learn the Merican culture.

[zbdent]

5. Didn't they "dispel" that real story about the girl who didn't have

a desk?

When it was shown that the girl did not actually have a desk at least for a week?

[Katarina]

7. Jebbie knows what he's doing.

This is his way of getting the schools privatized. Why else would he have used teacher pension funds to buy 96.3% share of Edison?

http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=2834&fcategory_desc=The%20Bush%20Crime%20Family

[seasat]

9. Hillsborough has some neat innovations in Public Education

My mom works for a mid sized school system in GA and she came down here to visit the Hillsborough schools because of their inovative magnet programs. They are trying to emulate it in her district. It looks like it'll probably decline. Thanks Jebbie.:eyes:

[bluestateguy]

10. Art and Music are always the first to go

It's not popular to say, but not every student is cut out to do math and science and english. Some of these kids would probably drop out of school all together if there were no art, music or shop programs.

[zbdent]

11. You know a school is really hurting for money

when, after SAYING that they might have to cut the Football programs (if .x levy doesn't pass), they ACTUALLY HAVE TO CUT THE FOOTBALL PROGRAMS.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. And a lot of kids perform better

in those subjects when they're given an opportunity to directly apply them, as with the study of a musical instrument. The creativity, discipline and organizational skills involved in Arts education are crucial to teaching children how to think...not merely what to think.