Bob Schaffer: “Ours says, let us fully fund the mandates that are there first. Let us give Los Angeles, for example, the $90 million a…”

“Ours says, let us fully fund the mandates that are there first. Let us give Los Angeles, for example, the $90 million a year to spend on whatever they want. If they want to fix the roof, that would be their prerogative. If they want to buy new computers, they could do that. California just had a class size reduction program that the voters voted for. It makes no sense for the Vice President, in the case of California, to now say, no, I am going to invent a new program for class size reduction, and the fact that you have already accomplished this goal is irrelevant. We are going to give you more money to do things you do not need.”