The Republican campaign for
austerity makes educators and
students, as well as millions of others, the victims in a strategy to make the middle class and the poor pay for the
excesses of the banking /economic crisis.
California schools have just begun to
recover from 4 years of extreme budget austerity and recklessness at the state
level. It would take at least 3 years
to return to normal. Now,
the federal sequester will impose new cuts on school districts which receive
federal funds- such as Title I, and Migrant Education. The Obama Administration estimates that California schools will lose about $88 million this year. The vast majority of schools and districts will not be
directly affected until the 2013–14 school year because of the “forward funded”
nature of federal education spending. However, when children have less food to eat, don't receive their vaccinations and lack medical care, schools suffer.
From
the Coalition on Human Needs
“The Sequester’s Beginnings. Congress
included sequestration – or across-the-board cuts in all but a number of
exempted programs – in its deficit reduction legislation, the Budget Control
Act of 2011.
