Posted on 06/07/2013 9:25:53 AM PDT by blam
Every Assistant Principal In Philadelphia Is Getting Laid Off Today
Pamela Engel
Jun. 7, 2013, 11:55 AM
Philadelphia schools are suffering the latest casualties in the ongoing education crisis in the U.S.
ABC 6 News in Philadelphia is reporting that all 160 assistant principals in the city's school district will lose their jobs as part of thousands of layoffs that will go into effect at the end of the month.
The Philadelphia School District is trying to close a $304 million budget gap. Art, music, and athletic programs will be hit hard by what some are calling the "Doomsday Budget."
Chicago is another big city that is turning to drastic cuts amid a budget crisis.
The city's school district is closing 49 elementary schools this summer, and the teachers union says the district might institute thousands of teacher layoffs to reduce spending. Chicago Public Schools is facing a $1 billion budget deficit.
Public schools across the country have been laying off tens of thousands of employees amid state budget shortfalls. In December, 11,000 of the 13,000 local government jobs lost were in public schools, according to Reuters.
Local governments have cut 300,000 education jobs since August 2008.
Stimulus money in 2009 helped states fix their budget shortfalls, but once the money was gone, some states were forced to implement widespread funding cuts.
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One step in the right direction.
In 59 Philadelphia voting divisions, Mitt Romney got zero votes
karma’s a b*tch, ain’t it?
That’s a good place to cut. Classroom teachers are the productive workforce of the school. Secretaries and Asst Principals are far less productive, and one AP makes as much as several secretaries. The Principal will be much busier without APs, and he’ll have to make decisions quicker and sometimes without letting the aggrieved parent of a bully or cheater talk himself out, but I think this will save a lot of money at a minimal educational cost in the short term. In the long term, they’ll have to hire or promote principals who have no AP experience, but that just means raiding their neighbors.
Useless eaters...
The best course of action would be to shut them down and fire all their employees.
I know this is a radical thought but why must a Principal have an educational degree?
Why not limit those with educational degrees to ... teach.
Have the school administers be people with business experience and or business degrees.
The higher you go in the bureaucracy the more “educated” the person is. I would propose the more “educated” they get the less they know how to educate children.
When I was in school the assistant principal was in charge of discipline. If that is still the case, then this sends the wrong message.
While I hate to see anyone lose their job, fine by me. How is it that Catholic schools can operate on far less $$s than public schools ? I don’t have it at hand but remembering reading an article in IIRC a St. Louis newspaper some years ago in which the Catholic schools were operating on far less a budget that the public schools and with better test and graduation results - one reason was because of the cost of all the Ass’t Admins at public schools. Businesses have had to trim down the past few years; and, public orgs, such as schools and all the alphabet orgs in DC and states spending our money should as well.
...ping....
BUT DON’T TOUCH THOSE PENSIONS!
>>When I was in school the assistant principal was in charge of discipline. If that is still the case, then this sends the wrong message.
I don’t know if discipline occurs in Philly Schools.
Now that’s a start!
(There were no assistant principals when I went to school-the guy with the title did the job)
Furthermore, our Catholic schools use government funds for kids who need extra instruction via their county's or school district's intermediate unit.
Finally, Catholic schools do not teach kids who are too far out of the mainstream learning. Kids with special needs have to go to the public school where they are obligated to teach them.
All that said, there is a ton of waste in public schools. Just not as much as you might think in a straight comparison between public and parochial schools.
Back in the day, we didn’t have assistant principals. We didn’t have teacher aides for every classroom, well, we flat didn’t have aides. Teachers had 40 students per classroom. But then we got to meet the “board” of education when we acted out and dad’s belt when we got home that day so we behaved and didn’t have to get duct taped to our desks. We took care of our textbooks so they could be used year after year. We took care of our school supplies, too. I still had my box of crayons labled Room 4-B to pass down to my kids. We also didn’t have million dollar baseball fields to tax the heck out of the parents.
Bingo - we have a winner!!
These unions are now reaping what they sow.
I even bet most of the kids in your class knew who their father was!
They usually promote the coach to principal which means little to no intelligence what so ever.
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