Tuesday, April 20, 2010

"State budget cuts imperil 100,000 to 300,000 public school jobs"; My Take: Fictional Emergency

Not only is there no source of jobs looking ahead, there is a potential massive source of lost jobs from state budget cutbacks. For example, the New York Times is reporting Districts Warn of Deeper Teacher Cuts. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/educa ... gewanted=1

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.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan estimated that state budget cuts imperiled 100,000 to 300,000 public school jobs. In an interview on Monday, he said the nation was flirting with “education catastrophe,â€