[...]"This is a horrible budget," said Sen. Rebecca Rios, D-Apache Junction. "It has lots of bad public policy issues, we absolutely cannot support this without decimating public education, child protective services, the elderly. This list goes on and on."
Rios said the last-minute action on the budget was unnecessary.
"The governor should never have allowed herself to be backed into a corner by her own party."
"We have $3.5 billion vanished, untold human suffering and misery there," he said. "We have to deal with it. We haven't dealt with it aggressively enough. We don't have enough cuts in this budget, but it's what we can get," said Senator John Huppenthal, R-Ahwatukee Foothills.
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[...]Representative Tom Chabin (D- Flagstaff) said parents will be disappointed to see the impact on schools.
"It won't be the education they got when they were children, they're not going to get the attention from teachers that they got when they were children," he said. "And it's not the school district's fault, it's not the school board's fault, it's not the teacher's fault."
Rep. Steve Montenegro, R-Phoenix, said education advocates were exaggerating the impact on schools.
He said children "are still going to be in their classrooms, they're still going to be taught, they're still going to receive all of the materials they need.
Public schools should be largely unaffected as most districts have cash from property taxes, federal aid and other non-state sources and those needing money can borrow it, officials said.
Where do these Republicans get their facts and figures? I am so disappointed with these people. They say they pro-education yet they vote against education every chance they get!!!!
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