A Vanessa Whitener has found cuts in states public school funding frustrating.  She states in a e-mail that there is still time to protest the budget plan including $242 million in k-12 spending for 2011-12 fisal year.  Senate Republicans are pushing that 7% reduction in spite of a temporary sales tax increase voters approved last year to prevent deep cuts to k-12 education.  She states a FYI some reps want the system to fail because they don’t like it she also states: “its not ok to let 90% of AZ children fail.”  In a interview between AZ central and Whitener she says she wrote the e-mail to let people know the spending cuts are not a done deal yet.  She asks where does this leave charter schools saying it is a biast cut towards public school systems.  She is meeting with the Higley school board to vote on a proposal to close the $5 million spending gap in its 2011-12 budget by adopting a series of cuts, including as many as 30 lay offs.  Whitener says Higley had prepared 2 budgets one with $3 million in cuts that was based on Gov. Jan Brewers budget with a less harsh k-12 education then the Senate bill.  They understand that some cuts must be made but other areas should be looked at more aggressively looked at. The frustration lays with schools leading education for this countries future always gets the budget attack first.