[Phys-l] WARNING POLITICAL: This is what prop. 13 and the Republicans have done to California Fwd: Broken Pipes, Unhealthy Schools: Break the Cycle of Disrepair

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

Is this (my subject) fact or opinion?


bc wonders about the 47th and + states.

Found it:

Research Center: Per-pupil Expenditures Approaching $10,000

assuming accurate.

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> Protect Student Health & Safety: Repair Our Schools Now
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> More about ERP
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> The Emergency Repair Program (ERP) was established in 2004 as the result of a lawsuit brought by the ACLU of Southern California (Williams v. Cailfornia). The suit charged that California’s public schools failed to provide all students with basic necessities for educational opportunity including clean, safe and functional classrooms.
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> Since its inception, the program has helped create a safer environment in hundreds of classrooms across the state, fixing gas leaks, unsafe electrical systems and clogged sewer lines. But now this vital program is under threat. Tell our legislators to fund the Emergency Repair Program.
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> Education is the shame of California. The state ranks 46th in the country in per pupil spending. Massive teacher layoffs threaten the promise of a basic education at some of the region’s poorest schools and now the legislature wants to end a critical safety net program that keeps schoolrooms safe for children.
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> The Emergency Repair Program (ERP)  provides the neediest low-performing schools, often in the poorest neighborhoods, with funds to make repairs to facilities that pose an emergency or urgent threat to the health or safety of students and faculty. The program seeks to remedy the problem of cash-strapped schools paying for urgent repairs at the expense of other critical repairs, keeping the schools in a “cycle of disrepair.” 
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> Tell our elected representatives to make our schools safe today!
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> In Compton Unified School District, the program helped restore heat to classrooms, and in Santa Ana Unified, the ERP allowed the district to fix water and sewer lines that had shut down drinking fountains and restrooms. But the program has not been funded for three years and is out of money,leaving thousands of repair projects stalled statewide. These include schools with leaking roofs, failed fire alarms and some without heat in the winter or air conditioning in the blistering summer months.
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> If we don't act now, our kids will face even more dangerous schools when the school year starts. Make sure the legislature funds this urgently needed program.
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