Key Facts About Corbett's Budget, Particularly Education Cuts

[JPZenger]

Great fact sheet on Corbett's budget, particularly his cuts to education.

http://www.elc-pa.org/pubs/downloads%202011/KeyFacts_CorbettEdBudget.pdf
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Plus an essay on the issue of Corbetts spending hundreds of millions to build new prisons, while slashing education spending:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/21/987208/-The-Corbett-Dilemma:-Close-Schools,-Build-Prisons

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Plus, a great column from the Phila. Daily News asks why do we keep spending so much public money on these school cyberfailures. It is based upon a Stanford University study that found that publicly funded cyber school students performed much worse academically than similar students in bricks and mortar schools:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/columnists/124221764.html

[babydollhead]

1. thank you!