Derry, for one, opposed spending public money this way, in a city with deteriorating schools and crumbling infrastructure.
Without them, the public will be forced to pay a regressive tax resulting from higher interest rates or will have to make do with deteriorating schools, highways, and water and sewer systems.
And as middle-class voters grow anxious over deteriorating schools and job markets, it's comforting to imagine that we might be electing a president who knows what it is to sit upright in bed and worry.
Jews joined other whites in leaving what they felt were deteriorating schools in Yonkers after a federal judge imposed busing remedies for what he ruled was a racially segregated system.
The reason for this, however, is that under democracy a country with a declining population, a frighteningly high rate of birth defects, crumbling infrastructure and deteriorating schools might find a better use for taxpayers' money than pouring it into Mr Surkov's Silicon Valley dreams.
To the veterans of the city's fiscal crisis of the 1970's and the severe cutbacks at the beginning of the last decade that led to dirtier streets, deteriorating schools and the exodus of many professionals to the suburbs, the economic forecast this time threatens to undercut much of the successes of the last several years.
As Angelenos go to the polls today under hazy May skies, everything from jobs to deteriorating schools to the dire condition of LA's roads has dominated the campaign between Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel, both Democrats and city hall insiders who made it through March's open primary.
Repairing deteriorating schools is very popular.
Put simply, American workers are hobbled by deteriorating schools, unaffordable college tuitions, decaying infrastructure, and declining basic R&D.
The page, created by teacher Matthew Kogan, is an effort by LAUSD teachers to voice their discontent with the district's decision to spend $1 billion on iPads but neglect repair to deteriorating schools.
