Posted on 02/21/2010 4:41:26 PM PST by KansasCanadian
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many teachers and educators across the United States are at risk of losing their jobs in the next few months, the country's education secretary told a meeting of the National Governors Association on Sunday.
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And this is supposed to be bad news how?
Fire all those that voted for obama-! That’ll eliminate 70% of them-!!! Good riddance to those clueless ones-!
For individual teachers laid off, gather yourselves up and start a private school. It should be easy to compete with government run schools on service, and on the level of learning students can achive.
...got a hunch part of this warning is to fire up the education complex...they are a major powerbase of the Dems who know they’re in for a tough fight in November.
Good... and good riddance!
The vast majority have become nothing more than overpaid and ineffective babysitters.
Good for her.
EPIC FAIL...
“I am very, very concerned about layoffs going into the next school year starting in September. Good superintendents are going to start sending out pink slips in March and April, like a month from now, as they start to plan for their budgets,” said Arne Duncan
The economic stimulus package pushed last year by the administration of President Barack Obama and approved by Congress saved at least 320,000 education jobs, Duncan told the governors.
The plan included the largest transfer of money from the U.S. government to states in the nation’s history, according to the Pew Center on the States.
It created a stabilization fund of $48 billion that provided cash directly to states, mostly for schools. But those funds will likely run out before the end of the year.
Duncan said the $1.5 billion “Race to the Top” grants included in the stimulus plan are on track to be distributed soon, with the finalists for the grants announced next week.
Obama has proposed extending the program, as well as expanding it by $3 billion, to fund new education innovations
In January, there were 8.03 million workers in local government education, down from 8.09 million a year before and 8.05 million in January 2008, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61K2I520100221
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I wouldn’t be surprised. Reuters is the mouthpiece of the current White House
I know one. A 60 year-old pot head!
Won’t happen. They have too much pull with the politicans.
I have always wondered. I know what a teacher is, but what is an "educator" ?
Well if we “fire” the politicians, then the teachers won’t have the power.
Perhaps with this recession, we’ll see laid off teachers serve as private tutors for home schooled students and more government schools will be forced to close.
Gee, I guess Willie CCClintoon’s chickens are coming home to roost. He had several programs $1 billion for 100 thousand (fill in the blank). The blank was teachers, police, firefighters. In short, any municipality which put a new teacher, police officer or firefighters on the payroll received $10,000.00. The taxpayers of that municipality picked up the difference between that amount and the salary of the teacher, police officer or firefighter. Move forward about 12 years of such deficits and you have the deceitful B. Hussin Obama “saving” their jobs with federal tax dollars. It’s time we realize we cannot afford those 300,000 jobs CCClintoon “created” and let them go the way of the dinosaurs.
Deputy Assistant Appointee to the Junior Vice Superintendant, and the fifty Adminstrative Assistants therof.
I know how she feels. I have worked there over 37 years and they have made it clear they want me to retire. I have three more years before I get any SS and a year before I can touch my annuity, but if I leave, they can hire two new teachers.
Classrooms do not need helpers, assistants, or aids. And we also don’t need the babysitting grades (K, pre-K, pre-pre-K, etc.)
It would be helpful if....
1. Defund the US Dept of Education- public schools are a state matter anyway.
2. Cut the free and reduced lunch in half.
3. Defund all this lousy “research” that gives us half-baked rubbish such as “21st Century Skills” and “Concept-based curriculum”.
4. Quit wasting money making rules for teachers to follow that require redundant personnel to manage the associated paperwork.
5. Remove the nepotism factor from things such as textbooks- instead of having an “approved list” of suppliers for schools, let the free market determine the price and let schools purchase the best stuff at the lowest price.
I am a teacher. I do not, will not belong to NEA. I am so concerned with education in this country. There are many problems in testing our kids to death, and not properly teaching them the things they need to know and how to think for themselves. We don’t need more bureaucracy, but we do need help in the form of lower classroom sizes and assistants. When the government tells you that you cannot ability group your classrooms, it is extremely hard to meet the needs of all students without the help of an assistant. Just wanted to clear up the importance of assistants.
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