As Laura said, many teachers face the threat of a lay off, simply because there is now not enough money to pay them. But still, all over the state, other state employees are getting raises, especially school administrators and superindents. When they fire teachers, that causes the class sizes to get higher, which means that each student gets that much less attention, but makes a ton of work for each teacher. (my mom's a teacher...of the 2nd grade variety) Gray Davis always said that he was the education govenor...I guess that means he likes to screw over those trying to give an education. Class sizes in the lower grades will probably go up again to 30+ students with no aides.
Also, college tuition at the state universities (where I go to school) was raised by roughly 25% for the Fall 2003 semester and will be raised another 30% for the Spring 2004 semester all because there is not enough state funding.
Car registration will triple starting in October because there isn't enough money.
The funny thing is...he new about the budget "issue" in September of 2002, but didn't say anything until almost December 2002...after he was sure he got re-elected. Hmm...
