A Third World education system?

[marmar]

from the NY Times:



Districts Warn of Deeper Teacher Cuts

By TAMAR LEWIN and SAM DILLON
Published: April 20, 2010


School districts around the country, forced to resort to drastic money-saving measures, are warning hundreds of thousands of teachers that their jobs may be eliminated in June.

The districts have no choice, they say, because their usual sources of revenue — state money and local property taxes — have been hit hard by the recession. In addition, federal stimulus money earmarked for education has been mostly used up this year.

As a result, the 2010-11 school term is shaping up as one of the most austere in the last half century. In addition to teacher layoffs, districts are planning to close schools, cut programs, enlarge classes and shorten the school day, week or year to save money.

“We are doing things and considering options I never thought I’d have to consider,” said Peter C. Gorman, superintendent of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools in North Carolina, who expects to cut 600 of the district’s 9,400 teachers this year, after laying off 120 last year. “This may be our new economic reality.”

Districts in California have given pink slips to 22,000 teachers. Illinois authorities are predicting 17,000 job cuts in the public schools. And New York has warned nearly 15,000 teachers that their jobs could disappear in June. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/education/21teachers.html

[Jkid]

1. Problem is this: What they will tell the kids?

[Gman2]

2. How long till they use Phrenology to determine which to waste money on?

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Sorry to break it to everyone, but we are already there...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8180562

[mzteris]

4. all the out-of-work parents,

should homeschool. One-on-one is infinitely superior to the 40:1 ratios that may be in some classrooms soon .

[HillbillyBob]

5. Cut the DOD funding by at least half

That will help the deficit and the costs of education and health care. Then again the rpigs/ kkkonservatives are busy trying to tell us we are a kreestian nation and the indoctrination to theocracy can go on...

[Foo Fighter]

6. There's no money for schools but for Wall Street, the sky's the limit.

This country is going to hell in a handbasket.