Posted on 06/09/2012 8:47:20 AM PDT by ColdOne
The $30 billion package to fill in the gaps left by slashed state education budgets failed to get a passing grade from Capitol Hill. And with summer vacation about to start across the country, a wave of teacher firings is expected to happen at a delicate moment for the recovery.
“All across America – tens of thousands of teachers are getting laid off,” Obama warned in the address broadcast Saturday. “In Pennsylvania alone, there are 9,000 fewer educators in our schools today than just a year ago. In Ohio, the number is close to 7,000. And nationwide, over the past three years, school districts have lost over 250,000 educators.
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Since when did paying the salaries of California teachers become the business of the Federal Government? Each state has a system of education set up, correct? Then allow the states to maintain the education system within its state without Federal Government interference. Holy Crap the Federal Department of Education was set up under Jimmy Carter, not George Washington.
Stop forcing states to collect union dues for the teachers unions and no teacher layoffs will be required.
“We averaged 32-36 in our high school classes,”
Same here, but I went to an expensive, private, Prep School. Got a wonderful education! I was a “Dorm Rat.”
Want to break the union? Force them to pick the teachers laid off and then give them unemployment from the union fund.
Our district has threatened layoffs every year for 30 years...and yet every year they miraculously manage to balance the budget and escape layoffs. Very strange how that works. Snark...
Want to break the union? Force them to pick the teachers laid off.
Uh, huh. And what happens when that $$ runs out? Well, another bailout. And after that? Is the Federal Government going to permanently be in the business of funding state and local education? And who will pay the pensions for these excess teachers when they retire?
Fixed it.
Obama, the jelly tossing champ.
Toss the “war on women” jelly. Splat. Nope, didn’t stick.
Toss the “vulture capitalist” jelly. Splat. Didn’t stick either.
Today let’s toss the “public teacher layoffs” jelly. Splat. Won’t stick.
We must have a teflon wall. What flavor of jelly is next?
K-Y.
They must be subject to layoffs just like “the people”.
They have been getting layoffs for years. They are talking about having only 1 Science a year to save money by getting rid of Science Teachers. That was on Fox News this very morning.
Didn’t he already toss the K-Y with Sandra Fluke?
Those leftist NEA hacks in Wis. ought to celebrate their Gov. Walker instead of trashing him unrighteously. All those teacher jobs saved without layoffs. Meanwhile in other Unionized LIEberal hades holes teachers aren’t safe from layoffs. Go figure-—never mind—DemRats dont use logic anyway.
Ohio, which defeated the Kasich reforms, reaping what it sowed. But hey, what about Wisconsin? Any layoffs there, Barkey? Why, I don't believe I have heard of any. Imagine that.
In CA the teacher’s union refuses to lower their pensions and other benefits, preferring threatening layoffs. So the stimulus money they rec’d and claimed it saved jobs actually preserved the pensions.
Actually, we need both teacher and administration layoffs. Teachers aren’t special and we have more than we need or can pay for.
The democrat party just lost 250,000 die hard voters and their union dues...
In Wisconsin the number of teachers hasn’t changed...except in those districts that rushed through their teacher contracts before the Governor’s reforms kicked in.
Good.
Math, History, Science and English are really all that is needed. Why not cut some of the sports events like field hockey and superfluous subjects kids do not really need such as Teen Living. How about some of the clubs? Like gay clubs or language clubs.
It would be insanity to even consider cutting any amount of science. The world is too full of idiots who cannot reason as it is.
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