Money for human needs —not war!
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DERSITY STUDENT UNUERSITY STE SE protest budget cuts at March 19 rally outside State Capitol New York students Now that the U.S. capitalist class has ground the Iraqi people into the earth, we can expect it to turn its attention back to grinding down its enemy at home-those in this country who must work for a living.
We are already witnessing an increase in the ruling-class attack on public education. In California, for instance, lay-off notices have gone out to tens of thousands of teachers. The public school system-having already suffered years of cutbacks and generalized neglect—is facing a further qualitative reduction in the quality of education served to the children of working people.
Less teachers means larger classes, which in turn can only result in a higher proportion of our kids condemned to functional illiteracy or to becoming dropouts from the public school system.
The rationalization for the cutbacks in public education is based on the recession and the resulting decline in federal, state, and local tax revenues. Thus, another consequence of the budgetary rationalization for the attack on the schools is higher taxes.
Here too, the intended victim again will be working people. This is built into the basic structure. of how public education is financed. In most cases, a major portion of the BRONX cost of education comes from two sourcesSAVE BRONX I SE