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Democracy4Sale wrote: Which conveniently ignores all of the federal money given to the states to hire extra teachers, firefighters and police... God, I could watch this for hours...
August 17, 2010
Given Funds to Rehire, Schools Wait and See...
As schools handed out pink slips to teachers this spring, states made a beeline to Washington to plead for money for their ravaged education budgets. But now that the federal government has come through with $10 billion, some of the nation’s biggest school districts are balking at using their share of the money to hire teachers right away.
The district laid off 682 teachers and counselors and about 2,000 support workers this spring and was not sure it would be able to hire any of them back with the stimulus money. The district says it could be forced to cut 4,500 more people next year.
“It’s a real double-edged sword,” said Michael Drewniak, a spokesman for the governor. “This money will not be there next year, and we’re not going to get back up to the funding that they had previously been used to.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/18/busin ... wanted=all
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Keep the money and the power local, it doesn't need to go the Washington to be wasted and then divvied up by the bureaucrat’s whims. There is no such thing as federal money.Democracy4Sale wrote: Which conveniently ignores all of the federal money given to the states to hire extra teachers, firefighters and police... God, I could watch this for hours...
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