Posted on 02/28/2010 6:13:18 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Sacramento area teachers brace for thousands of pink slips
dlambert@sacbee.com
Published Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010
Sacramento teachers and other school employees are bracing themselves for thousands of pink slips.
Unlike previous years when many layoff notices were rescinded, school officials say more of those employees will likely lose their jobs this year.
"It's heartbreaking," said Steven Ladd, Elk Grove Unified School District superintendent, whose district is expected to send out more than 1,000 pink slips.
Ladd and other administrators say layoffs this year probably can't be avoided. Years of intense budget cutting have left districts so lean that salaries are approaching 90 percent of some districts' budgets.
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How’s that Hopey-Changey thing working for ya?!
What??? Sounds like too many do-nothing teachers to me.
Notice there is no mention of schools closing down!
10 more kids per class equals a lot of pink slips.
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It IS heartbreaking when teachers lose jobs. Unfortunately, a very large percentage of “teachers” aren’t really teachers. They’re administrators, bureaucrats, and others not actually in the classrooms.
I don’t blame these bureaucrats for moving out of the classrooms, because that’s where the better pay lies. On the other hand, they should be the first to go when costs are cut. The education bureaucracy must be cut. Teachers, on the other hand, should continue teaching!
Well they certainly have something in common with NASA contractor engineers.
and just where did their education dollars go?
IIRC, the Fed said it didn't have to divulge where $2 Trillion went early on.
I wonder how many foreign teachers total:
Sep. 14, 2008
States are hiring foreign teachers to ease shortages
The largest single sponsor of foreign teachers, according to the NEA, is Visiting International Faculty, which claims it has 1,500 teachers from more than 55 countries in districts in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and California.
http://www.kentucky.com/2008/09/14/523308/states-are-hiring-foreign-teachers.html
Pigs at the trough. How many of you voted for nobama? How many of your colleagues retired in their early 50’s? How many of you are moonbat libs?
The need to get rid of the school lunch (and breakfast and dinner) programs and the money should be spent strictly on teachers salaries. If someone can't or doesn't want to learn they should be allowed to go home and perhaps sign up for some apprentiship program.
this is why we can't have bigger parks or zoos or better highways or docks etc......we pay too much as a nation for wages/benefits and have too little for actual purchasing,construction materials,assets, etc..we can't grow when our budgets are strapped.
Ain’t got nothin’ to do with that schmuck. We got our own set that’s been in place longer than o.
so why are they hiring foreign teachers?
What needs to change are the retirement and healthcare benefits that the teachers enjoy. This country cannot support government pensions and free, or nearly free health care. Teachers’ (and college profs’) retirement needs to be brought in line with that of the private sector, the same with the health insurance. Once the government union workers are subjected to the same realities that the private sector deals with, they won’t be so ready to vote for bigger government programs that are unsustainable.
These area teachers hired during the real estate boom...when all State coffers were overflowing.
And whether they were DEMS or GOP...they spent it all. ‘Surplus’ was like winning the lottery for the States.
Now...the poor dears will have to go back to having 36 students in each classroom.
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The golden goose no longer resides in Kaleeforneea! So in years past when the gravy train kept chugging along and Ca. was awash in flowing $$’s the state could spend like drunken liberals without much recourse. Now the bill has come due and it’s a doozy!
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