We've been saying for some time now that cuts to the education budget
made at the state level are seriously impacting local schools - as well
as local school budgets and local tax rates.

The attached story, from last week's Clayton Tribune, published in Rabun
County, tells the story. Schools are struggling to provide a quality
education, but in the face of ongoing "austerity" cuts, making ends meet
is getting harder and harder.

We put quotation marks around the word "austerity" in the preceding
paragraph, because we are not aware of any particular austere economic
climate the state is currently enduring. Yet the cuts to education
continue.

Articles like the one attached are, unfortunately, appearing in daily
and weekly newspapers across the state with increasing frequency. The
question here at PAGE is where and when does this end?