Community responds to the District budget shortfall

by Paul Socolar

As the District grapples with how to slash $629 million in spending for next year to balance its budget, activists continue to condemn the education funding cuts proposed by Gov. Tom Corbett.

But the budget crisis has prompted a variety of other responses by local advocates and activists, including ideas on how to reduce the impact on schools and proposals to shift more power to schools in the budget-cutting process.

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