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1,000 attend protest on state budget cuts

May 16th, 2008, 8:20 am · Post a Comment · posted by Peggy Lowe

budgetcuts.jpgThe Reg’s Scott Martindale has a story today on the protest over Gov. Arnold Scwarzenegger’s budget cuts.

About 1,000 people attended the protest in Santa Ana yesterday, which was organized by a coalition of labor interests.

Some of the worst cuts, it appears, will hurt education. Scott reports that it could be a 6 percent slice — at least.

“Parents should not have to fundraise every year to make up for the government’s lack of fiscal responsibility,” said Lisa Paisley, a sixth-grade teacher at Lake Forest’s Foothill Ranch Elementary School. “What we offer our youth is skeletal already.” 

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