A headline today reads: Fewer gimmicks in Hogan’s $40B budget; solves deficits for 3 years by capping spending hikes

But at what cost?

Does a $157 million cut to K-12 classes and community colleges put our education system at risk?

Would that diminish our attractiveness to businesses that need an educated work force?  Affect their employees want a quality education for their children?

The Hogan budget makes that cut.

There is no Democratic alternative yet that would make the spending reductions elsewhere, but there will be.

The decisions we will make on spending priorities and public education policy are what governing is about.