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Posted on 04/18/2011 7:40:45 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
This is what the recession looks like in a country that’s decided to disinvest in public education. Reuters reports that Robert Bobb, the emergency financial manager appointed to address the Detroit’s bleeding public school system, has decided to send notices to all 5,466 unionized public school teachers. And 250 administrators will get layoff notices as well.
(Excerpt) Read more at colorlines.com ...
These layoffs are becoming common toward the end of school year. Some get their notices to return at the end of the year, others over the summer.
They are done to manage the yearly reorganization of classes, because without timely notices, ya have to keep and fully pay any teachers that ya don't needed for benign reasons like declining enrollment.
This is crazy!
They oughtta just raise property taxes on....
on......
....on all the bulldozed neighborhoods of Detroit.
Whoops.
One thing is very different this time. Under the new Emergency manager law, Bobb can toss union contracts even against school board wishes.
May not be what it seems...Teachers get a year's wages for working 9 months...In the past, they were all layed off at the end of the school year and all drew unemployment benefits for the next 3 months til being called back to work...
No more teachers in Detroit? It might actually raise the students’ test scores.
Yep. Looks like their heading in the right direction though by closing some of the schools up, but I’m guessing the majority of these ‘teachers’ will be returning next year.
Yep. Looks like they’re heading in the right direction though by closing some of the schools up, but I’m guessing the majority of these ‘teachers’ will be returning next year.
The Gulen Movement/Fethullah Gulen Community (FGC) is another that is creating Charters with Islamic focus all across the U S. The are based in Saylorsburg PA .
Be careful what you wish for. Charters are not the answer. They are being used to advance the Progressive Agenda.
“This is crazy!
They oughtta just raise property taxes on....
on......
....on all the bulldozed neighborhoods of Detroit.”
Considering that you can buy houses in Detroit for $5000, at current valuation, how many houses does it take to get enough property taxes to pay the salary of even one teacher? If you throw in a homestead deduction from the valuation, I’d bet the taxing district would have to pay homeowners.
Geeze, assumming they taxed a home at 100% of valuation, and disallowed homestead exemptions, it would still take a dozen or more.
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Sounds like you guys are kicking ass up there! Good to see it. It seems like just yesterday we were contemplating selling Kali and MI together as a package deal.
You are giving libs the pass on rational thought.
The way they would figure is thus: One house bought for 5,000, 5, or 50,000, does not matter. We need 100 k for teachers, divided by the number of homes owned in the area. Let's see, one owner, so, you owe 100 k in taxes. Simple, straightforward lib math.
Hell I’m trying to attract some conservatives to solidify our hold. Michigan is spectacular if you love hunting, fishing, hiking or ant other outdoor type stuff. There are counties up north with under 3000 people in them.
No doubt the State is a wonder every bit as good or even better than that of my own Colorado.
It would be nice if, as a condition of re-employment, a teacher had to get an above-50th-percentile score on an SAT-II subject-matter test on each subject they would be teaching. But the EEOC would bar that.
———they appear to be fairly pragmatic-——
Pragmatism requires rational thought. The implication is that there are rational liberals in Deeetroit.
I doubt it
Hail “Bobb”!
Anyway...If you have followed my posts regarding K-12 education you will see that in nearly every post I call for the complete separation of school and state. Parents and charity should be responsible for education. Government on every level ( federal, state, and local) must divest itself of anything to do with education.
We now have a government cartel monopoly on K-12 education. This cartel is giving its services away for tuition-free! Few businesses can compete against that. How long do you think your local Safeway, Smiths, or Acme would stay open if government ran grocery stores that gave food away for free? In many counties, such as mine, there are no private schools because they can not compete against the government cartel.
So....I support vouchers, charters, and tax credits ONLY if they are used to build the private infra-structure needed to completely abolish all government involvement in education.
The danger that I see with charters, vouchers, and tax credits is that we will have the tuition inflation that we see on the college and university level. Also, as you rightly point out, the voucher, tax credit, and charters could easily be controlled by powerful Marxist and government interests.
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