I pay attention to local government issues alot. If video was available for city commission meetings or neighborhood associations (which we should), I would probably watch them. As it happens, I was watching the March 5th school board meeting and stumbled upon this tidbit. The impact of Congressional Conservatives sequestration on the San Bernardino Unified School District (SBUSD) is estimated to impact low income students heavily.
To the tune of $4 Million Dollar cuts will happen to Title I (Low achieveing students in high poverty areas), Title II (Teacher Quality), Special Ed., and Tech Ed. The shortfall will attempted to be covered by Unrestricted General Funds to support this project.
However, SBUSD is trying to balance its budget and had to issue layoff notices to 166 teachers so using Unrestricted General Funds might be limited.
This shows you the priorities of Congressman Gary Miller who has proven himself to be the defender of the elitist 1% (who make 365 times the median salary) by reducing their tax rate to 25% and asking for nothing in return (in terms of job creation or investment in the United States). We all know that these reductions will either be passed onto shareholders or invested in overseas operations with no gurantee that jobs will be created here in the United States of America.
Mr. Miller has also shown his contempt for the impoverished and working class families that live in my city of San Bernardino by cutting programs that are needed to help bring quality teachers to our district and abandoning low achieveing students, dooming them to a life of poor economic prospects in our increasingly competitive economy.
Mr. Miller can call the sequestration "President Obama's" sequestration all he wants, but the fact remains that Congressional Conservatives maintained the cuts outlined in the sequester and therefore they now own these cuts. Mr. Miller and his Congressional Conservative allies did nothing to mitigate these cuts except to fund the bloated Pentagon budget for the rest of the fiscal year.
How is this helping working families families of the Inland Empire?
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