California public school officials say Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed cuts in education funding for 2008-09 would reach deep into classrooms. Many K-12 school districts say they have only begun to recover from slashed budgets in the early 2000s, and this would push them backward once again.
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ALSO: The Los Angeles school district may have to slash $36 million from the current budget and up to $500 million next year. Those reductions could affect reform efforts, salaries and classroom programs. In his preliminary budget proposal, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed reducing spending for public schools by $4.35 billion next year, but the immediate panic was caused by his plans to slash $360 million this year, which will be more than half over by the time officials scramble to propose cuts.
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EARLIER: In a politically charged move to help whittle down the state's $14 billion deficit, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to propose billions in cuts to public education and a suspension of schools' constitutional funding guarantee under Proposition 98. The suspension, which requires a two-thirds vote of lawmakers, has been done only once before – during the fiscal crisis of 2004 – and left Schwarzenegger reeling from accusations that he broke a promise to restore education funding in subsequent years.
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