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GCS officials say expected state budget cuts will likely mean fewer students will be able to attend summer school.

Should a state law preventing school systems from charging for summer school be repealed?

Here's the story. Feel free to share you thoughts on the issue.

Principals are due to turn in their school budgets Friday. Additional teaching positions could be cut from those budgets. Superintendent Mo Green says they won't be able to say tomorrow how many more jobs might get cut and isn't sure when they will.

You've had a few hours to digest Green's budget proposal, what do you think?

Sounds like more teacher layoffs are imminent. Anyone else hearing from their teachers anything like this?

Karen Alley of Piedmont Parent emailed me this morning pointing me to her site. Looks like a lot of good info for parents.

Thanks Karen.

Archer Elementary isn't alone in needs for repairs. What are some of the issues you parents have come across at your schools?

Possible job cuts were announced. And while Mo is still mum on who exactly stands to get the axe in the central office we do know that he expects to cut about $13.1 million there.

Thoughts?

Here's what Green is recommending. What do you all think?

Gov. Perdue is expected to give more detail about the education portion of her budget today before releasing the entire budget this week. I'll post a link to the story ASAP. What are you thoughts on how she should budget education. Should teachers get raises? Should transportation dollars get cut? More spending per child? Less spending for construction?

UPDATE --- Not a lot of surprises from Raleigh yesterday. But the question is will this really help local officials staff schools? Will the legislature support it? Time will tell.