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August 16 Open Thread

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* Sen. Steinberg says that the new federal money can be used to close the budget gap.

* Schools, including LA, improved their test scores.

* It looks like Orly Taitz is going to have to pay the fine. There are certainly enough birthers to cover that for her, right?

* Dan Walters thinks Arnold is in legacy mode.

* Carla Marinucci fact-checks Drudge on “Jerry’s double dipping”. Turns out, shockingly enough, that this was really a non-story.

2 thoughts on “August 16 Open Thread”

  1. It’s gong to take a serious re-write in order to make the “Governator’s” legacy a comedy.

  2. Quite clearly, there’s a provision for a “Maintenance of effort” that explicitly and specifically anticipates and blocks such shenanigans as:

    Since the federal school money doesn’t flow through the state, the main way that state leaders could use it to solve the state’s budget gap would be to reduce payments to schools by a like amount, $1.2 billion.

    Indeed, the way the MOE provision is structured, I have worries that California can qualify for this money at all, since we have no budget for 2010-2011 and since the other backstop, funding levels for 2006, is higher than the Governor’s last proposal.

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