Posted on 02/21/2010 4:52:56 PM PST by preamble
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.
"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, referring to the slips of paper included in some paychecks to notify a person of being fired.
As tax revenues in most states continue to plummet because of weak economies, states and cities are considering cutting education to keep
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Why don’t we just close the NEA and turn education over to the states.
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Please read post #17. Government schools can not be fixed.
Simple solution to all the education problems.
Eliminate the US Department of Education and return the $70 billion dollars back to the states to only be used for school vouchers. Taxpayers will reward educators that provide excellent education and eliminate those that do not.
Abolish the Dept. of Education - there I said it and it needs to be done!
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While definitely a good idea it will not fix government education.
Please read post #17.
Thats somewhat of a tough sell in this state Marlowe, always has been, vouchers I mean. The bloody unions have been used to decades of feeding at the public trough and this is coming as a shock to them. But I don’t care. Unions aren’t some protected class—as least they didn’t use to be. I’m just sick and tired of them holding me and every other NJ taxpayer over a barrel. You’d have to wonder why a state this small needs so many bloody state workers and teachers.
Sorry, meant to say ‘’aren’t going to lie down over this’’
In one NJ district a teacher with a M.A. and 33 years makes $106k while a rookie Spanish teacher with a B.A. makes $45k. That's more than double for doing the same job.
Simple. Get rid of everyone but teachers. Problem solved.
Too bad so many people don't get it.
In the meantime, children suffer and the future gets darker.
Sigh.
Oh, wow, thanks for posting some good news!
sad to even have to say this again, but the federal govt has ZERO to say about the education of our kids.
Zilch, NADA, ZIP, Nothing.
Simple. Get rid of everyone but teachers. Problem solved.
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That will not fix the government schools. Please read post #17.
Government schools can not be fixed because they **are** socialism! Socialism can NOT be fixed.
Again please read post #17.
sad to even have to say this again, but the federal govt has ZERO to say about the education of our kids.
Zilch, NADA, ZIP, Nothing.
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Please read post #17. Getting the federal government out of the education socialist business with not fix government schools.
Please read post #17.
We’d need to destroy the state-level affiliates at each state level, too.
The best thing is to defund them and make them compete in the free market.
You’re preaching to the choir.
I was born and raised in NJ and, yes, I studied Education and received my K-12 certificate to teach.
I didn’t, for reasons that should be fairly obvious.
Why do we even have a department of education?
It is an unneeded unwanted drain of our money.
That also goes for the department of energy and and at least half of all the other agencies.
For that matter, why do we need so many armed federal police agencies? (FBI, DEA, ATF, DHS, CIA, NSA, etc.)? All this means is just unnecessary redundant and competing bureaucracy.
Ah yes, I knew I’d find you on this thread. Spewing BS as usual. And as for the other “stupid” conservatives, most think like I do. Your spew is just that, spew.
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