Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Boys' State Budget News

Down at Boys' State, decisions are being made about the next state budget.

So far they are defunding physical education programs, consistent with state senator Larry Grooms' opposition to selling crap food to school kids last session. If we can't produce smart kids in our schools, we might as well spare the fat ones from having to climb a rope in gym class.



The boys aren't very keen on health care, either:

Legislators also rejected efforts to shield rural hospitals from $125 million in Medicaid reimbursement cuts.

But they are keen on letting parents form Christian academies at public expense- and at the expense of public schools:


While a total of $12 million would be cut from things like PE and guidance counseling, the overall Department of Education's budget grows by $87.6 million, with $25 million of that to expand public charter schools
Price said it was hard to fight the House GOP's push to shift $25 million from traditional schools to public charter schools. "The public charter school money was going to come from somewhere," Price said.
The boys also insisted that the taxpayers stump up $1m for the Republican presidential primary. 

Consultant/bloggers breathed a sigh of relief.
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