(LA Times) Schwarzenegger insists everywhere he goes — on talk radio and at initiative campaign rallies — that his proposed budget includes a $2.9-billion funding increase for schools: kindergarten through community college.

When the "special interests" claim that school funds are being cut, he says, "They are lying."

"The [teacher] unions spread propaganda that I'm taking money away from education, which is totally incorrect, because I'm adding…. I am a pro-education governor."

The governor is correct. He is adding money. But what he leaves out — and the ed lobby is hollering about in TV ads and at protest rallies — is that he promised schools roughly $2 billion more and reneged.