Posted on 05/08/2020 8:23:58 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - Just as they face unprecedented new challenges and financial costs, leaders of K-12 public school districts around the country are warning of dire consequences from sharp budget cuts from state legislatures attempting to deal with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.
The alarm was sounded by school superintendents in 62 cities, who sent a letter to Congress through the nonprofit Council for the Great City Schools, asking Congress for billions of dollars in new federal education assistance and warning that some 275,000 teachers could be laid off in their districts alone because of budget cuts caused by a drop in state and local revenue during the crisis. Those would add to existing shortages in virtually every state.
"[D]ark clouds are forming on the educational horizon that will spell disaster if Congress does not intervene," the letter said. "Significant revenue shortfalls are looming for local school districts that will exacerbate the disruption students have already faced. Some 40 to 50% of school district revenue, in fact, come from local sources that are expected to drop precipitously in the months ahead. This revenue decline will come on top of revenue losses in the months to come from state sources that have been more widely reported. Several big city school districts are now projecting 15 to 25% cuts in overall revenue going into next school year."
In California on Thursday, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom released a budget analysis showing a $54.3 billion budget deficit through next summer, with projections that the K-12 public schools could lose some 20% of their state funding.
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Why aren’t these people trying to recall their Governor.
Everything was fine before the unnecessary shut down.
Well, well. Public and private schools are now outlawed, illegal to operate. Home schooling is compulsory. I suppose that some online charter schools may get permission to hold a school. With the economy collapsing, however, most private-school parents will lose the capacity to pay tuition. Some children may continue their private education with philanthropic assistance. Most of the rest will go to home schools.
Many families fled or avoided the public school systems because of drugs, violence, indoctrination, sex, depravity, and other problems. Rather few of these families will return their children to public schools. Unfortunately, resources like libraries and museums on which many families relied for cheap or free learning materials and enrichment now are closed or outlawed too. But many families, even suddenly or deeply impoverished ones, will find new ways to cope. For the third of American children with parents, the new home-schooling routine will go mostly well if not better. Some of the rest of the children will do fine.
The children at the bottom from deeply broken homes, however, used the public-school system as a source of free sustenance, warmth, and refuge from drugs, violence, abuse, insanity, depravity, and instability at home. America has a huge underclass of such children, who try to eke out an existence in horrible and dangerous environments. These children of course stand to suffer most terribly in our new economy. Illegal drugs, marijuana, alcohol, pornography, and other vice industries have expanded considerably in this depression and will continue to increase. These sorts of parents do not feed their children but illegally convert the supplemental nutrition assistance that the government gives them into drugs for themselves, leaving the children to scrounge and scavenge whatever they can find.
Liberals for the Teachers Unions.....
Time for the mighty school system purge and might as well dissolve the DOE while we're at it.
As someone else mentioned, I want a third of my school taxes back. Direct deposit is fine.
Shut them all down.
If you quit feeding them they will eventually go away.
In Az we are. The petition was announced right before Ducey started opening things up. WHAT A RINO!
Took the words right out of my mouth.
The Silver Lining in all of this could be that more people decide to home school or send their kids to private or religious schools versus allowing their kids to be brainwashed each day by the Teachers Union Pukes.
What’s going to be funny is when the standardized tests next year show an amazing increase in skills, throughout all groups.
Some things to come out of this:
More Homeschooling.
Lower property taxes.
“School boards & communities are going to need to strip out layers of bureaucrats & politically correct indoctrination & refocus on actual education.”
In Blue counties and states, they’d rather DIE first. ;)
So,
To those badmouthing homeschooling:
1. Test scores for standardized testing (lower for pubic schools)
2. Test scores for ASVAB, SAT and ACT (lower for public schools)
3. Suicide rates (higher for kids in public schools and in direct correlation to when public schools start and end for the year).
4. Spread of diseases (crowding - efficiency is about maximum utilization)
***How does this Corona virus fit into your picture?
The American pubic school system is another industrial revolution product. A Henry Ford assembly line where kids get put in cohorts by age (not abilities or interests). Classrooms and teachers get used to maximum capacity (quantity over quality). The interests of law/policy makers (used to sell oneself), lawyers, teachers and their unions, publishing companies and others are served financially. Education is not their product.
Mine-Homeschooled all the way through.
All are doing fine at their chosen professions. One is a copy editor, another drives a semi. Another is an aerospace engineer, another a nanny while continuing her education.
Homeschooling works,
Many local cities in Californicator land are talking about laying off teachers and other staff members.
Yet, many if not most of those cities are still providing 1-2+ meals a day a day per illegal student.
Homeschooling works indeed. For centuries.
With a little luck they will have to act since they are between the rock & the hard place. Even in NJ school boards are taking aim.
They should have thought through their support for coronavirus shutdowns. They were happy to get a break from the OPC’s (Other People’s Children). I don’t blame them for that but they will probably never again be able to strike using the threat of sending the OPC’s home. The other thing is that there is more competition in the distance learning arena, and now it isn’t only homeschoolers that know about it. It will be good for taxpayers in general as the cost of public education decreases.
bingo
Yep.
Now this is a “new normal” I could get used to. How about one principal, one secretary, one nurse, one janitor and a bunch of teachers?
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