Parents fight state school cuts

Julie Davine, a mother of two in West Hills, has never considered herself politically active.

But she is hopping mad and drafting a letter to Arnold Schwarzenegger - her first letter to a California governor - over proposed state budget cuts that she considers theft from resources and funding for her kids' schools. Barbara Corea in the Daily News.

"When I first heard this, I thought, `It's like robbing from the poor.' We already pay for the music teacher. We pay for a P.E. teacher.

"We have to buy pencils, markers, Kleenex, copy paper. Now the school is going to ask for more. It boggles my mind."