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Gentle Reader:

We had an earlier post exposing the hypocrisy of all of the special interest groups trying to milk their opposition to the FAIR Plan for all its worth, while these same groups have not said a word publicly about “The Steamrollers” proposal to cut the aid he promised to school districts last year. 

From my post last month:

What I found really interesting is that not one of these “concerned citizens” at Thursday’s meeting has said one word about Governor Steamroller’s proposal to cut the amount of money the state promised schools last year.  In Monroe County, schools will receive $21 million less than they were promised.

A reasonable person would expect to hear outrage “for the children.” But these these people haven’t said a word about Governor Steamroller’s proposal.  What makes this even more galling is that the Steamroller is proposing to increase school funding in New York City at the expense of Monroe County children.

Their silence on this issues shows them for what they are — special interest hypocrites with an agenda that isn’t in the best interest of Monroe County.  If their concern truly was “for the children” they would be holding hearings speaking out against Spitzer’s budget proposal.

I was reading the New York Sun and they had an interesting article on NYC education groups forming the “Keep the Promise Coalition.”

A council member who is chairman of the Education Committee, Robert Jackson, said he estimated that in addition to another $200 million he says the schools are owed by the state, a further cut of 3% to the Department of Education’s budget would mean schools are facing about $1 billion in cuts. The city already had called for $180 million in cuts this year and another $324 million next year.

(snip)

Before the proposed reductions were announced yesterday, the city’s teachers union, the United Federation of Teachers, had planned a protest the cuts on March 19 along with education and parent groups, union members, and elected officials, operating together under the title: “Keep the Promises Coalition.”

So here we find ourselves less than one month away from the scheduled adoption of the New York State budget, and still not one word of concern from the special interest groups like the Alliance for Quality Education, the Working Families Party, Metro Justice of the Monroe County School Board Association on Governor Steamroller’s plan to break his promise from last year costing Monroe County Schools $21 million.

I call that hypocrisy.

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