thank you for being with us, i can t believe what i m hearing and reading and listened to today. linda cook, how is the governor s charter school agenda affected this district? well first of all, thanks for getting the story out, ed. the governor s agenda has siphoned funds students and money from the chester upland school district. just taking it right away for charter schools and what about the public school kids? well, it is ironic the school district was not able to pay their charter school bill, so the state is paying the charter schools, but it won t give the school district money. why not? i believe it s politics. and the governor trying to his agenda across that he got defeated in november. sarah ferguson, why have you decided to work without pay? and also your fellow teachers?
committee chairman. we have had many bills that have upload all on bipartisan basis. many with democrats, authors of the bill unheard of in the past but this last week, when the agenda, narrowed to critical issues that were on the calendar, they decided the only way they could get their way was to leave the state. i d given them the word. when they get back the calendar is going to be exactly as it was the day they left. kind of like when you were in elementary school and played kick ball but you took the kick ball and went home. absolutely. we ve taken on the charter school bill, they gave 93 amendments during the course of that debate. we took 12 of them they were good ideas. the rest were designed to gut it. we are open to discussion. they have put in 140 amendments on our state budget bill proposing to increase spending by nearly half a billion dollars