Before they cut low wage state workers how about they look at quit giving state money to religious/private schools?  What you say?  Yes, Sen. Mike Dunleavy from the Valley has his catholic kids covered.  He devised a bill to call private school students "homeschoolers" so they get $2400/year from the state.  When my friend's son attended Our Lady of the Valley she did not know for three years that he was "duel enrolled" in homeschooling.  No accountability but some nice, expensive computers came home.