This Charlotte Observer editorial tackles a serious issue – public school layoffs. It makes a few good points. For example, I agree that the county manager “should exhaust all other kinds of reductions before he asks for cuts that might require teachers to lose their jobs.”
But the chuckle-worthy passage comes a bit later in the editorial.
The state can help. Gov. Bev. Perdue can make good on her pledge to get more money into the classrooms in her budget to be unveiled next week. No sleight-of-hand, please, governor. Those dollars must not be given from one pot only to be taken away from another. Early scenarios still show deep cuts in public school funding. School systems would still have to make up millions. (Emphasis mine)
Nearly everyone expects to see some “creative budgeting” when Perdue unveils her budget next week!
