Save California's Education: Really Fix the Budget
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| Cause Name: | Save California's Education: Really Fix the Budget |
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| Cause Description: | This year, California's legislature faces the task of overcoming a massive deficit, up to $20B depending on who you ask. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget proposes cutting $4.8 Billion from education, billions from services to California's most vulnerable citizens, closing state parks, and cutting funding to cities and counties. Much of this results from the Governator's cuts to the Vehicle License Fee, which has cost the state about $15 Billion to date.
Call Governor Schwarzenegger and the legislative leaders and tell them we should be increasing our education spending, not decreasing it. We must increase California's revenues to save education. |
| Cause Start Date: | 2008/05/07 |
| More Information URL: | http://www.calitics.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5800 |
| Cause Tags: | California, California budget, budget deficit, education |
| Politicians Associated with Cause: | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dave Cogdill, Darrell Steinberg, Karen Bass, Mike Villines |
| Randomize call queue? | No |
| Cause Script: | Hello, my name is ____________. I'm concerned about the impact of budget cuts to California's education, transportation, and services. Governor Schwarzenegger's proposed cut of $4.8 billion would hurt a school system that is already 46th in the nation in per pupil spending. We need to increase revenues to provide funding for California's services and education. |
Facts about Save California's Education: Really Fix the Budget
| Cause description | This year, California's legislature faces … This year, California's legislature faces the task of overcoming a massive deficit, up to $20B depending on who you ask. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget proposes cutting $4.8 Billion from education, billions from services to California's most vulnerable citizens, closing state parks, and cutting funding to cities and counties. Much of this results from the Governator's cuts to the Vehicle License Fee, which has cost the state about $15 Billion to date. Call Governor Schwarzenegger and the legislative leaders and tell them we should be increasing our education spending, not decreasing it. We must increase California's revenues to save education. e California's revenues to save education. |
| Cause name | Save California's Education: Really Fix the Budget + |
| Cause script | Hello, my name is ____________. I'm concer … Hello, my name is ____________. I'm concerned about the impact of budget cuts to California's education, transportation, and services. Governor Schwarzenegger's proposed cut of $4.8 billion would hurt a school system that is already 46th in the nation in per pupil spending. We need to increase revenues to provide funding for California's services and education. g for California's services and education. |
| Cause start date | 7 May 2008 + |
| Cause url | http://www.calitics.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5800 + |
| Has politician | Arnold Schwarzenegger +, Dave Cogdill +, Darrell Steinberg +, Karen Bass +, and Mike Villines + |
| Has tag | California +, California budget +, Budget deficit +, and Education + |
| Randomize | false + |
