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Budgets cuts – the ouch is everywhere

November 30th, 2008 by marietta nelson

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Gov. Gregoire is floating those trial balloons on budget cuts these days – trying to find out if folks can stomach cuts in education funding. Type “education budget cuts” into Google and you realize that Washington is certainly not alone.

Here’s a sample:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/779531.html

http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/116407

http://www.projo.com/education/content/arts_education_11-02-08_2MC4S53_v24.3592d12.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-me-budget29-2008oct29,0,6236374.story

 But could this be an opportunity? Tom Van Der Ark, a columnist on Huffingtonpost.com, thinks so.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-vander-ark/schools-facing-big-budget_b_145697.html

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