Gov. David Paterson last Thursday proposed $ 5 billion in cuts over the next two years to fill a growing state budget
deficit, and the plan makes
deep reductions in funding to education, health care and state agencies.
The bipartisan congressional supercommittee's failure to negotiate a national
deficit reduction plan triggers automatic, across - the - board spending cuts that will have devastating consequences for schools and students already reeling from
deep education cuts at the state level.