Bring the nuns back. Problem solved.
How many coordinators, deputy administrators, assistant administrators, and deputy assistant administrators are being laid off?
So the claim is that these Department of Education employees are in classrooms teaching students. I’d like to see proof of that.
As Walter Williams liked to point out, Education majors are just about the the dumbest students on any college campus.
The more we spent on them, the worse it got.
This is a good thing.
When you don’t have all those illegals to teach, then you need to find another job.
Thousands of educators are losing their jobs,
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.
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.
the children will learn to READ, and THINK, for themselves
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.
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.
Those are not teachers. They are liberal bureaucrats.
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.
When programs disappear, students suffer.
Down sizing as a method to reduce employees bypasses Unions and any other impediments.
The people that are losing their jobs are not educators. They are just pocketing our money. Living off the government fat. I don’t know any teachers in our school district that Trump cut their jobs. What a bunch of B/S.
It’s absurd to have 8-12 kids in a classroom. And go back to the single child desks...this long table method is cr**.
If one digs a little deeper they will find that teacher layoff doesn't mean classroom teachers. Just the bloated administrative and support positions all of which are classified as teachers in order to benefit from the school bond votes to raise teacher pay.
Check out any main high school in Wikipedia and it will have a student to teacher ration of something like 15:1 but if you walk the hallways you will find every room with 30-40 students. How can that be? The answer again is all the administrative and support staff; principals, psychologists, counselors, coordinators, department heads, etc, classified as teachers.
Massachusetts could fire half of the non teacher staff and streamline their operations thereby thus improving the efficiency of the system immensely.