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Mass teacher layoffs are reshaping America’s education system
Citizen Watch Report ^ | Alex

Posted on 03/15/2025 6:21:49 AM PDT by davikkm

Public education is facing a crisis as mass teacher layoffs sweep across the country. Thousands of educators are losing their jobs, and the consequences are already being felt in schools and communities. This isn’t just about numbers on a budget sheet. These are real teachers, real students, and real families being affected by decisions that will reshape the future of education in America.

In Massachusetts, the situation is especially severe. The Department of Education is slashing nearly 50% of its workforce, eliminating over 1,300 positions. The official reasoning? Cost-cutting and streamlining operations. But critics warn that these cuts will hit the most vulnerable students the hardest. Special education programs, school meal funding, and essential support services are all at risk. When resources shrink, class sizes grow. When programs disappear, students suffer.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education
KEYWORDS: 1postandrunblogger; blogpimp; education; layoffs; teacher
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1 posted on 03/15/2025 6:21:49 AM PDT by davikkm
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Bring the nuns back. Problem solved.


2 posted on 03/15/2025 6:22:54 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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religious schools? libs will have nun of that.


3 posted on 03/15/2025 6:25:05 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: davikkm

How many coordinators, deputy administrators, assistant administrators, and deputy assistant administrators are being laid off?


4 posted on 03/15/2025 6:25:30 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: davikkm

So the claim is that these Department of Education employees are in classrooms teaching students. I’d like to see proof of that.


5 posted on 03/15/2025 6:26:00 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: davikkm

As Walter Williams liked to point out, Education majors are just about the the dumbest students on any college campus.


6 posted on 03/15/2025 6:26:14 AM PDT by ComputerGuy ( )
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The more we spent on them, the worse it got.

This is a good thing.


7 posted on 03/15/2025 6:26:35 AM PDT by boycott
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To: davikkm

When you don’t have all those illegals to teach, then you need to find another job.


8 posted on 03/15/2025 6:27:43 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: davikkm

Thousands of educators are losing their jobs,


Correction: Thousands of bureacrats (many with Eduction degrees) are losing their jobs. And its not a big loss at all. The state of American education is abysmal and they are a significant part of the reason. [The other part being big groups of parents who could not care less about their kids’s education.]


9 posted on 03/15/2025 6:27:45 AM PDT by rbg81 (=)
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To: ComputerGuy

Because too many of them are there to indoctrinate, vs. actually teach the three Rs.


10 posted on 03/15/2025 6:28:49 AM PDT by rbg81 (=)
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To: davikkm

What a silly article. Devoid of any useful information. The article mentions MA laying off staff. Then it talks about the DoE laying off staff. On the surface, staff cuts at DoE have no impact on staffing in states. The article does not mention other funding DoE is doing or tying it together. Therefore it is a scare article. To me, that means the conclusions are more than likely false.


11 posted on 03/15/2025 6:30:47 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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Schools are paid through property taxes.

The Department of Education has nothing to do with that.

This is a big nothingburger. The author seems to be misled.


12 posted on 03/15/2025 6:31:10 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: davikkm

the children will learn to READ, and THINK, for themselves


13 posted on 03/15/2025 6:31:27 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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Years ago, my parents moved, and I was placed into my first Catholic school - with those ‘mean’ nuns. Traumatic experience. I was doing well, but that school was so far ahead, that it took me a few weeks to catch up. Best thing that ever happened to me. And back then, public schools weren’t bad, they were just behind. Today? Publik skoolz? Bwahahahaha.


14 posted on 03/15/2025 6:35:35 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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I graduated with my Bachelor’s in Bus Ad with a concentration in accounting. I went back to my counselor (who was also one of my management professors) after substitute teaching for a year, and said....I think I want to get a teaching degree. He laughed and said....you’d be bored to death. He then read me a list of classes I’d have to take. I said never mind. lol


15 posted on 03/15/2025 6:35:50 AM PDT by sheana
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Special education programs..and essential support services are all at risk.

I promise you, special ed will never be at risk. It's codified in law, and it's implementation falls under a civil right. The entire Department of Education may be gutted, but the DOE Office of Civil Rights will be here to stay, even if it gets named something else. It's the federal agency that makes sure local school districts provide services to special needs students. It's not going anywhere.

16 posted on 03/15/2025 6:36:16 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: davikkm

Those are not teachers. They are liberal bureaucrats.


17 posted on 03/15/2025 6:36:24 AM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: davikkm

I wouldn’t put it past the left to intentionally make education even worse (if that is possible) than it already is just to spit in the eye of the president if he turns it over to states. There should be some type of punishments if the states don’t meet a minimum standard though.


18 posted on 03/15/2025 6:36:47 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: Maine Mariner

They don’t dare name what these support services are!-)


19 posted on 03/15/2025 6:37:39 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than saving to WORK like the rest of !US:-))
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When programs disappear, students suffer.


when bureaucrats disappear, no one suffers.


20 posted on 03/15/2025 6:37:50 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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