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I'm about to head down to City Hall for a briefing on next year's school budget and then to the Keep the Promises rally against the budget cuts. There's been so much information floating around in the last few weeks, not to mention the leadership shakeup in Albany, that it's hard to know what's really going on with the budget. But as each day brings more bad news about the economy, we can assume the school funding picture won't be ideal. I'll blog later on whether parents, teachers, students, and advocates turned out in the gloomy March weather for the long-planned mass rally -- but I hope they do. You still have time to make it to the rally, which starts at 4 p.m.