California Governator Eyeballs Increased School Spending

California has a budget shortfall of $14 billion, but generous Governor Schwarzenegger is considering an expensive new plan to improve the state's troubled schools [1]. A large chunk of the increase is targeted at children who do not speak English:

Some legislators familiar with the report are also pessimistic about the prospects of implementing the panel's recommendations, which include two costly initiatives: $1.1 billion to expand pre-school programs with free day-care and all-day kindergarten and $5 billion for a program for poor students who are learning English.
[ School reforms price tag: $6 billion [2] San Jose Mercury News, Jan 4 2008]

That's $5 billion in addition to what is already being spent to teach English to foreign kiddies. California now pays a stunning $66 billion on general education costs for K-12 [3], half of the entire budget.

But no amount of taxpayer money will ever be enough to bring California schools up to previous standards as long as education-disinterested Mexicans [4] are allowed to keep coming.