In a recent Decatur edTV video, school Superintendent Dr. Phyllis Edwards talks with restrained irritation about the state’s funding shortfall when it comes to public schools, and discusses where Decatur will have to make cutbacks (travel, no overtime, hiring freeze, reduction in technology and maintenance…and even more going forward).

As noted in previous posts, about $250,000 of that $1 million was supposed to come from rolling back the “austerity cuts” on schools that Perdue implemented when he took office.  But apparently that was all talk.  The other nearly $700,000 is from the disappearing Homeowner’s Tax Relief Grant money that the state can’t afford to pay back to the city (whoops!).

The state of Georgia seems to have planned as poorly as the sub-prime mortgage industry and all of its many patrons.

If you’d like to let Sonny know how you feel, here’s the link.