Imagine this: an elected official in Pennsylvania who says that budget cuts are not only wrong but completely unnecessary.
Brian Sims is a member of the House of Representatives who knows that Governor Corbett’s $1 billion cut to public education was wrong.
In this post, he explains that the state could raise the needed funds in other ways, for example, by requiring a fair tax on those now exploiting the state’s natural resources (e.g., those who are fracking and making huge profits while paying the state only pennies).
Kudos to Rep. Sims for constructive thinking that truly puts students first.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
You want to fix the financial mess world wide not just here. Well, force the master of destruction, Obama, to put back into place the laws Bill Clinton eliminated in the 1999-2000 destruction by means of the Banking Deregulation Acts. Obama has put into place those who destroyed the system. You never do that to fix a system. You throw them out the door fast and bring in honest smart dedicated people to fix broken systems and you throw out the messed up system and replace it with the proven system. Does that make enough sense? Until this is done nothing will get better except for those on the top.
what makes least sense is your misplaced ire. president obama has stated that the gramm–leach–bliley act (GLB), also known as the financial services modernization act of 1999, led to deregulation that, among other things, allowed for the creation of giant financial supermarkets that could own investment banks, commercial banks and insurance firms, something banned since the great depression. the president has no power to change law. only congress can do that, and a GOP majority will never allow it.
i meant to mention that i took that info on PBO and GLB from wikipedia.
Reblogged this on David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Texas Education.
unfortunately brian sims is a member of the minority party. we”ll do all we can to remedy that in 2014, but gerrymandering gave us a steep hill to climb.