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...John Howat, aide to Senate Education Committee Chair Salvatore R. Albano (D-Somerville), said that education's relative immunity from budget cuts in the past few years was in part a result of economic prosperity. "In the past five or six years, the Massachusetts economy was thriving. No area of the budget was really cut too much...
...Howat also said that part of education's past immunity from cuts can be attributed to popular support. "In terms or what we've heard from constituents, nothing in education should be cut at all. Everybody likes education...
...current fiscal crisis, Howat said, popular support may not be enough to protect the education budget. "That support really doesn't mean that those line items are beyond scrutiny...
Both Barrett and Howat agreed that it was too early to predict which education programs will suffer most from the likely budget revisions...
...really tough now to say that one program is safer than another," Howat said. "It really depends on the entire legislature, the sentiments of 200 people. That we can't predict...