Torlakson to push emergency school lunch funding
By Lisa Vorderbrueggen
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 at 1:37 pm in California budget, education.
Assemblyman Tom Torlakson, D-Antioch
Assemblyman Tom Torlakson, D-Antioch, will announce emergency legislation to ensure the survival of California’s school meal program, which is projected to run out of funding before the end of the school year.
Torlakson will appear with state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell at press conferences on Friday in San Leandro and Los Angeles.
Torlakson, by the way, is running for the job held by O’Connell, who terms out in 2010.
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January 22nd, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Good grief! Tom wants to not only teach K-12 (toss in pre-school students), but he wants the taxpayers to feed them with money the State does not have.
So what’s next? Will Tom be clothing them and tucking them in bed as well?
February 2nd, 2009 at 7:42 pm
We linked to this article in a post on the CA NOW blog: “World’s 8th Largest Economy Broke”
http://www.canow.org/canoworg/2009/02/california-officially-broke.html
February 16th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
[...] are in danger, including education. Assemblyman Tom Torlakson is working to ensure that the school meal program retains funding through the end of the school year. The Governor has proposed allowing schools to use class-size-reduction funds for other purposes, [...]