Sarah Palin has rejected $172 million in stimulus funds for the state of Alaska.
$74 million of those funds are for education, aimed at mostly poor and special education students. These are districts with extremely high drop-out rates.
School officials are dismayed, disappointed, and "stunned." Some are lobbying the state legislature to overturn the decision.
In Palin's own school district, 60 out of 1,200 teachers might have to be laid off because of her refusal of stimulus funds.
How very sad that the children of Alaska must suffer so that Palin can score political points.
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