Funding shortfalls squeeze educators: ‘There’s just no hope right now’

[katty]

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Funding shortfalls squeeze educators: ‘There’s just no hope right now’

By Alex Johnson
Reporter
MSNBC
updated 1 hour, 20 minutes ago

Around Valentine’s Day, parents in Cheatham County, Tenn., near Nashville, could face a problem: how to get their children to school.

There’s enough money in the 2008-09 school budget to pay for bus fuel only until February. The Cheatham County Board of Education doesn’t know what it will do after that.

“In the area where we live, those children are 12 miles from school,” said Kim Lane of Ashland City, the mother of a high school-age son. “That’s a long walk. What are they going to do?”

[Doctor_J]

1. Better vote for McSame, Kim

He'll get Big Government off the backs of the Cheatham BoE and all will be well. I hate to hear these stories coming from the Bible Belt, but if these people would read instead of spending all day listening to Hate Radio, they would have seen this coming.

[raccoon]

2. Rec'd. I've been wondering about how school districts will deal with the high costs of gas. nt