he said. she said. a married couple's blog.

My job at the Adult High School starts up again tonight. The learners have been back for a while now, but the Learning Labs are just opening. Gives them time to get confused and have questions, I suppose. I'm not expecting a terribly large group tonight. We'll see.

I got an email today about how the President's new budget would effect our program. It's not good:

Virginia is slated for a 74.4% cut. That means that our federal allocation would be reduced from an estimated $11,266,838 in FY 2005 (beginning Oct. 2005) to $2,884,920 in FY 2006 (beginning Oct. 2006).

Isn't the First Lady supposed to be big on literacy and education? Whatever. I'm too tired to rant about it... I'm not in this to make money; I'd teach if I didn't get paid. (I was a volunteer at one point.) The extra cash is nice, but it's not the point. Still, 74.4% is a huge chunk.