Friday, September 21, 2007

So, it's come to this.

Just how badly does Paris Hilton need another tax break? How long should an occupation, that benefits no one but oil companies & arms manufacturers (& the people invested in them), go on?

Bridges fall into rivers, whole cities are wiped out when the levees break and now cripples are going to walk to school.
Who voted for this guy?

The only government you need to be afraid of is a government run by people who don't believe in goverment.

It really started with St. Reagan, the first mentally ill/figurehead president. It keeps getting worse. Time for a new, new deal.

Administration to cut school buses for disabled children

By Aurelio Rojas - Bee Capitol Bureau
Published 6:46 pm PDT Friday, September 21, 2007

The Bush Administration plans to stop reimbursing states for school-based Medicaid activities, including transporting disabled students, a move that would cost California schools more than $100 million a year.

Districts are scrambling to figure out how to pay the bill because federal law requires schools to provide special services for disabled students.

"If the money stops, districts are going to have to find the money somewhere else in their budgets," said Suzi Rader, director of district and financial services for the California School Boards Association.

Public comments on the rule change, published Sept. 7 in the Federal Register, are due by Nov. 7. The cuts will take effect by the 2008-09 school year unless the administration changes its mind -- which is unlikely based on the administration's record.

Sacramento City Unified School District and other school districts rely on the Medicaid insurance program for the poor, known as Medi-Cal in California, to pay a portion of the costs of transporting disabled children.

The Sacramento unified district transports 1,100 special-needs children each day -- including some confined to wheel chairs -- and is still calculating the potential costs.

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