Any other school systems dealing with huge budget cuts?

[antigone382]

The Hamilton County School System, in Tennessee, is facing a $22 million budget cut. They're being forced to lay off teachers, end a lot of extracurricular programs, and close some Chattanooga schools. They won't even be able to provide bus transportation to high schools anymore.

But hey, No Child Left Behind is working, and Fearless Leader's tax cuts have helped get the economy back on its feet.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5291113/

(The link is sort of old, but it's the best article I could find online)

[efhmc]

1. Happening all over Texas. Thanks to Ex-Gov. bush and his

cronies. They'll never cut anything to do with football, however. It is sacred.

[dsc]

2. Ohio is a mess

Cleveland laid off over 1000 teachers, Mentor laid of over 100, Hudson and Beechwood (two of Ohio's wealthiest communities) have laid off. I am moving to North Carolina to get a teaching job it is so bad here.

[AwakeAtLast]

3. I got a 1% raise

which is not even COLA. My school board also had the nerve to tell us that we should be happy with 1%, because our insurance cost did not go up. Do I look happy to you? Good teachers are leaving the profession in droves, and I may not be far behind.

:grr:

[EndElectoral]

4. Happening in PA - They passed slots to reduce property taxes

But they won't allow much to go to heloing fund education...it's the old syndrome - nothing is more important than our kids, but that damn teacher's union is breaking us so let's screw them....god, as Yakov smirnov said "What a country!"

[merh]

5. Mississippi's newly elected repug gov is implementing the

policies used by Bush in Texas. (Former head of RNC/co-owner of one of the largest lobbying firms in Washington DC - Haley Barbour).
Education cuts the first tragedy of his administration.

[antigone382]

6. Update

School budget cuts like this are actually happening all over Tennessee, not just Hamilton County. It's a good thing I graduated a year ago.

[greenbriar]

7. USD 259 in Kansas

is facing its 2nd year of layoffs...

we lost 10 teachers last year and are looking at 10 more at least this year.



our class sizes are hitting 40 and TRUE learning is not...NOT taking place because we are babysitting!

[greenbriar]

10. I should qualify that is just ONE of 12 highschool

I am reporting on.


all 56 schools in our district faced 5% buget cuts across the board

[Ilsa]

8. We lost half of our speech therapists in our district in TX

and don't have enough money to lure in new ones. Under IDEA, the school has to pay for private therapy if they are unable to hire enough therapists.

Bush gave away our nest egg when he was governor. We had about $6 billion (IIRC) we could have used as a rainy day fund, but he slashed property taxes, giving the money back. Of course, the orporations were the only ones to see any substantial gain from this move. Our property taxes were cut by only $65 a year. Of course, they've gone up two or three times that amount since then.

[seabeyond]

9. i thought the lotto was all about the schools

are you telling me they lied about that to, go figure. i hear they haven't gotten any of the money from that. anyway

Texas schools are bad, sittin here this summer, keep them in Christian private/ put them in public. you all aren't giving me encouragement to public, though think the Christian private is too limited in its teaching, want a more expanded curriculum

[Ilsa]

11. It is official: We have the worst h.s. graduation rate

in the nation now in Texas.

[MichiganVote]

13. Michigan sucks too

The only ones making money these days are the administrators and the mediators. No District is unaffected by NCLB. Plus Michigan set itself up for trouble by leveraging up the standards prior to NCLB. Unlike other states with less stringent mandates, Michigan now has to live with what was started.

Money? Teachers? What's that? No, parents today want us to burp and diaper their kids, feed them two meals a day, teach them academics, teach them acceptable behaviors--you name it, its done. Bush and his buddies are making education the Walmart of professions. Its all a scam to bring in vouchers for private schools. Right wing wins again.

All the Districts are hammering on any form of raise, all unions are fighting not to pay for benefits. We'll all be losing out unless we stay with our unions but with so many retiree's and young people joining up, the unions are in jeopardy just as they are among other workers.

The testing costs alone for NCLB are astronomical. And they act like schools never tested kids in the past or that teachers are not held accountable. What a joke. Special Education numbers are through the roof and most of these kids just shouldn't qualify. They need parents who can be available to help them learn and a government that cares.
No one thinks a thing of paying more for their kid's annual day care than what it takes to educate a kid for 9 months.

Well done, George Bush, well done. From one educational terrorist to another, well done.

[Massacure]

12. My school cut one class

But that is because only 6 people signed up for it. None of our teachers are getting let go. One of our teachers is retiring, and my history teacher is going through the applications to fill the spot. He said he got 140-some applications for that one opening. Other school districts must be hurting.

This is up in Wisconsin.