Milwaukee schools to lay off 354 teachers

[alp227]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- In a budget-cutting move likely to be echoed around the country, Milwaukee Public Schools said Wednesday it will lay off 519 staff members -- including 354 teachers -- because of $84 million in state cuts and the system's efforts to control costs.

Superintendent Gregory Thornton also said schools will likely see larger class sizes and the continued use of older textbooks. The state budget cut means $200 less per child, officials said.

The layoffs are effective Friday, the beginning of the third quarter, when cash-strapped state and local governments are forecast to shed up to 110,000 jobs, according to IHS Global Insight.

Thornton said he was "extremely troubled" that most of the affected teachers are in elementary schools.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/29/wisconsin.teacher.layoffs/index.html

[MichiganVote]

1. Those poor kids.......

[Greybnk48]

4. The MPS kids recently tested higher than the Charter

kids, but who gives a shit apparently. My SIL teaches 2nd grade for MPS. Walker's been trying to destroy the system for years.

[plumbob]

2. 100,000 teachers in Texas will be gone by mid-August, along with 10,000

state employees.

No step raise, no more buyback of sick leave, sick leave cut in half and forbidden on Mondays or Fridays, larger classes, the use of a robotized teaching program called CSCOPE that eliminates textbooks in favor of copied worksheets or notes from the overhead.

It's everywhere.

[MessiahRp]

9. Do you have any links/documentation about the 100,000 number?

I've searched all over and not seen anything about CSCOPE replacing teachers and it's not that I don't believe you or think that firing 100,000 teachers for robotic programs is not the Republican wet dream, it's just if I want to warn everyone I can about it, I need something more concrete to work with.

Can you help me out and substantiate the claim a bit?

Thanks,
Rp

[plumbob]

10. I'll give you some links. Sorry if I gave you the idea that CSCOPE

will replace teachers. The teachers will simply be teaching huge classes with this scripted instruction which literally means every teacher teaching a subject will be saying the same words at the same moment, and where textbooks and all other materials are junked which are not part of this scripted, robot-like way of teaching.

Links for 100,000 teachers in Texas going:

http://www.kvue.com/home/117522288.html

http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/22/news/economy/Governors_teachers_jobs_union/index.htm

http://www.good.is/post/screwed-up-priorities-texas-to-layoff-100-000-teachers-while-giving-millions-to-formula-one-racing/

Some info about CSCOPE:

http://www.esc19.net/programs_and_services.php?service_id=26


http://www.proteacher.net/discussions/showthread.php?t=119528

[SteveG]

19. 1984 is finally here.

Soviet style education is being introduced by Right Wing Governors.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. Yeah because if there's one thing we don't need is teachers. nt

[russspeakeasy]

5. Makes me want to puke.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. There's a special place in hell reserved for Scott Walker

[Dappleganger]

15. Well he better hurry up and get there...

that special place is getting more and more cramped.

[postulater]

7. Class sizes to rise from 18 to 30.

[roxiejules]

8. They wanted public schools to fail

Reed Hundt, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (1993-97), asked H.W. Bush’s Secretary of Education Bill Bennett (and first Drug Czar) to support legislation that would pay for internet access in all classrooms and libraries in the country. “I asked him to support the bill in the crucial stage when we needed Republican allies. He told me he would not help, because he did not want public schools to obtain new funding, new capability, new tools for success. He wanted them, he said, to fail so that they could be replaced with vouchers, charter schools, religious schools, and other forms of private education.”



http://ksdcitizens.org/2010/12/22/waiting-for-superfraud/

http://www.nndb.com/people/493/000022427/

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[defendandprotect]

12. kr

[Bandit]

13. Jobs is definitely on the Republicans agenda only in losing them not gaining them..

They are going to really shit on the economy with this huge layoff of workers...It will effect every business down the line...

[BlueFog]

14. How Kaukauna School District is handling the WI budget cuts

Maybe the Milwaukee SD should learn what strategies are available to them now.

According to an article I read, Kaukauna is reducing class size and hiring a few more teachers:

http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/06/union-curbs-rescue-wisconsin-school-district :)

[tigereye]

16. way to go, Gov. Getting back at teachers and unions is

always worth it, who cares that the casualties are kids? Betcha there will be plenty of money in the future for all the jails they will have to build when the populace is even less educated than it is now.

:nuke: :banghead: God forbid we should find reasonable ways to raise revenues...



I have to say, every election year, or POTUS election year, or decade, I would say, well it can't get any worse. And it always does. Infuckingcredible. :(

[democratinnashville]

17. Walker is destroying Wisconsin

Anything less than recall is unacceptable.

[sarcasmo]

18. Children getting screwed by the Republican party.