From the HARRISBURG PATRIOT NEWS:
…To help close next year’s budget gap, school officials are looking to cut Harrisburg’s kindergarten program and other programs the district is not lawfully required to provide.
Even after implementing these cuts, the district still would face a multimillion dollar budget deficit next year.
“The last thing I would want to do is cut kindergarten, but if it comes down to keeping the district open or kindergarten, I am going to opt to keep the district open,” [school board member Brendan ] Murray said…
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EDITOR: At a time when pre-kindergarten should be available for children three years old an up, we may be depriving children of an essential educational opportunity that everyone of us had and takes for granted. This is the result of wasting 10% of our Gross Domestic Product on a dysfunctional health care system, senseless wars and foolish drug policies. Also we have refused to tax ourselves as we had in the past. We have wasted our resources … worse yet, we have used some for bad purposes. Shame on all of us!
Of coure the most immediate cause is Gov. Tom Corbett refusing to tax Marcellus Shale gas product. He enriches his chronies who gave him over a million dollars for his campaign and turns his back on our chldren…as he did as attorney general.
