Does it get any more depressing than this?
PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
Painful cuts
Louis Freedberg Tuesday, January 21, 2003 (in the SF Chronicle)
HERE’S a riddle: When is an option not an option?
When it is one of 18 “optional Medicaid services” Gov. Gray Davis wants to cut from the state budget.
[profiles two people on SSI who depend on Medi-Cal to pay for dental care that cause them excruciating pain and major health problems]
EDUCATION
Raising the Bars
Complete sentences: Turning students into prison inmates
Margo Freistadt Sunday, January 19, 2003 (in SF Chronicle)
A simple solution would avert the budget disaster facing California’s schools: We should declare every public school to be a prison. The kids would understand.