My tax dollars at work

MANIFESTO

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With the first day of school just weeks away, dozens of students in Bloomfield and Manchester are still waiting to learn where they will be attending class.

The students had been accepted to attend Hartford host magnet schools, but recently learned that if their home districts don't pay the $4,600 in tuition that Hartford school officials say is necessary to close the gap between what they receive from the state and what it costs to educate them, they will have to return to their local school district or seek alternatives.

This is just another story wherein we find that the impasse regarding taxes in the state has affected the opening of schools. With the ridiculous NCLB standards still in place, one of the few places available to students who are in underperforming schools is a magnet school of the type described in the article. Now, Governor Clubwoman's intransigence regarding new taxes is destroying even that possibility.

Mother Mary continues to insist that it's all the Democrats' fault, but I'm not buying it. At any rate, she might want to consider the effects her line-in-the-sand politics are creating.

UPDATE — Apparently, Governor Clubwoman doesn't want to work with the state's Dems because they're commies.