NL: Schools On The Line

To balance the budget now, after Friday’s vote, we would have to cut school budgets, teachers, heat, lights, buses, counselors, everything by something like 15%. That is what will begin to happen next week unless my colleagues fear going home to constituents and admitting, yes we increased class sizes, laid off teachers and did nothing but cut deep deep into our public schools. It is up to the people of the state to render the fear of hurting schools perhaps more loathsome than the fear of not singing to the tea party tune of lowering taxes until there is little, less or no government left at all/ Nicole LeFavour , Notes from the Floor. More here .

Question: Does the state Legislature have any alternative but to continue to cut from budgets in this time of Great Recession?