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DEL.ICIO.USSomebody go to a construction site and find out how to say ‘red tape’ in Spanish
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Remember how Gov. Sonny Perdue ditched a $1.6 million program to see that foreign languages are taught in a limited number of Georgia elementary schools? Instead, he decided that a $1,200 check for the same purpose should be sent to every elementary school in the state.
Except that, according to the Augusta Chronicle, the checks aren’t in the mail yet — even though the school year is well underway. And next year, they may disappear entirely.
“The money has not gone out because there is still kind of a dispute between the governor’s office and the Legislature about how that money should be assigned. Once they’ve resolved their differences, we will distribute that money in some method,” the newspaper quotes Dana Tofig, a state Department of Education spokesman, as saying.
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By Jim J
September 25, 2007 10:37 AM | Link to this
The title of this post is really blatantly racially offensive. You wouldn’t write “Somebody go to a watermelon patch and find out how to say ‘red tape’ in Ebonics,” would you? Oh, yeah, I guess you would, actually. What a waste, and what a poor reflection on your employer.
By Marty M.
September 25, 2007 11:05 AM | Link to this
The title of this post is not racially offensive. Note one word about race. WTF?
I can hear the violin music now…
By Barry
September 25, 2007 1:10 PM | Link to this
The legislative leaders should have the courage to take Perdue to court over his “redirect” of this funding. Georgia’s constitution allows the governor to veto funding, but it does not give him the authority to spend it where the legislature did not appropriate it.
You can bet if he were of a different party, the suit would already have been filed.