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the states public schools. This action creates severely negative repercussions for teachers, students, families, communities and society as a whole. For example,
last year Wisconsin announced the largest cut in funding to education in the states history, $834 million over two years, a decrease in funding of 7.9 percent, which means that
education bore the brunt of one-fifth of the proposed budget cuts necessary to bridge Wisconsins deficit (DeFour A1). However, the greatest impact on school funding was the governors proposal to
decrease the amount of revenue schools receive from state aid and property taxes in 2012 by 5.5 percent (DeFour A1). This means that Wisconsin public schools will not receive $470
million that would normally be expected (DeFour A1). The revenue cuts are expected to result in thousands of teachers being laid off (DeFour A1). In California, the cuts to
public school funding have been in the billions. In 2010, the state legislature slashed $9 billion from the budgets for grades K through 12, which led to roughly 30,000 layoff
in personnel (Cosgrove 583). These severe cuts in funding mean that there are "larger class sizes, fewer school days, smaller opportunity for summer school and a decrease in extracurricular programs"
(Cosgrove 583). Frank Pugh, president of the California School Boards Association, commented that the severe cut in funding are "changing the face of education for an entire generation of students"
(Cosgrove 583). Schools all over the country have addressed cuts in state funding by shortening their hours, increasing their class sizes, offering fewer courses and curtailing their purchases of
books and instructional material (Rebell 1855). The negative effect that budget cuts have on the quality of education being offered in the nations public schools raises constitutional issues. The vast
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