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...recalled that Murphy went to every budget committee hearing during his first campaign for the council...
...Budget woes are perhaps most acute in California. The state, the most populous in the U.S., spends about $48 billion a year on K-12 education, or nearly half its general fund, which receives revenue from a variety of sources, including income and sales taxes. This year, however, the double whammy of endless layoffs and an imploding real estate market has decimated the fund, with legislators projecting a $42 billion deficit by the middle of next year...
California isn't the only state grappling with steep K-12 budget cuts. In Florida, officials in overcrowded school districts are bracing themselves for likely staff cuts. Connecticut's board of education adopted a budget resolution in December that included an overall 10% reduction - a move that some fear means that pink slips for teachers are inevitable. "The biggest line items in most school budgets are staff and benefits," says Bob Brewer, an education consultant in East Hartford, Conn. "No district can absorb those kinds of hits without trimming some of those big-ticket items." (See pictures of politically engaged...
...library are recruiting parent volunteers to staff the facility a few days each week. Juli Finney, president of the school's Parent-Teacher Association, admits that while this solution isn't ideal, it is precisely the kind of effort she and other parents must make to ensure that state budget cuts don't deny their children the chance to experience the thousands of books that are now quite literally behind closed doors. "Technically, the PTA is supposed to put icing on the cake and not provide the cake itself," she says. But when times are tough, some cake is better...
...plot of the movie takes a backseat to its biographical exploration, but it still helps to advance Van Damme’s character and dissect the fame that is slowly slipping away from him. The film opens with Van Damme in mid-scene on the set of a low budget action film. He gets into it with the foreign director over an issue with the poor quality of the set, to which the director replies, “He still thinks we’re making Citizen Kane.” As the movie unfolds we begin...