Reply #10: Not just higher education.

[LWolf]

He is gunning for public education in a big way this year.

He is calling for widespread school takeovers and charter conversions.

He's working to eliminate teacher tenure and tie teachers' jobs and salaries to standardized test scores.

He plans to cut more than two billion dollars next year from school funding, and transfer another billion dollars in costs from the state to local school districts. Over the past five years, schools have already been cut and funding has been deferred by more than $9 billion!

He wants to eliminate prop 98's guarantee of minimum funding for K-14 education, and subject us to across-the-board cuts up to twice a year.

He, and the supposed democrat, Jack O'Connell, fully support our current "standards-based education system," in spite of the recent findings that show it hasn't resulted in any improvements.

He has refused to make his appointments to the Quality Education Commission, which is charged, in part, with examining the State’s school funding system to determine its adequacy.

And again, he is threatening to put initiatives on the ballot this year if the legislature does not accept his proposals.

As a California teacher, I'm more than outraged. I'm moving out of state this summer, so I won't be here when all this sh*t hits the fan, but that doesn't keep me from strongly opposing him. Enough damage has been done to the public ed system that educated me. Arnold needs to be defeated in a big way. What California does influences the rest of the nation.