Liberals on the City Council and legislative delegation are very frustrated about the Duval County School Board trying to save money for the taxpayers.

Two council members, Ju’Coby Pittman and Jimmy Peluso are complaining that the board is closing schools that are not needed.

It is none of their business, because the School Board members are elected to run the schools, but they had to get in their two cents worth anyway.

Their complaints were aired by News4Jax, which always is ready to highlight grievances from the left.

The TV station’s explanation of the school district’s plan to close and consolidate schools, incidentally, was interesting. It said the plan is “set to help close its $1.4 billion budget gap.”

There is no $1.4 billion budget gap. I don’t even know what that means. The school district’s revenues exceed its expenses.

In any case, state Rep. Kimberly Daniels also chimed in with a three-page letter to the school board asking irrelevant questions.

“We have to find out what happened,” she told TV reporters.

What happened, as everyone knows, is that the government school monopoly was broken and when they had a choice, parents been choosing other ways to have their children educated.

With a shrinking clientele, the school district is doing the sensible thing: closing schools and reducing the number of employees.

This is affecting the cycle that has helped fund the Democrat Party for years.

Powerful teacher unions fund Democrat campaigns and Democrats vote to spend gobs of money on government schools, which means higher salaries for teachers and thus higher revenue for teacher unions to support Democrats, and so on.

Fortunately, the current School Board is looking out for students and taxpayers instead of a political party.