A wave of teacher layoffs set to wash over Georgia politics

[marmar]

from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:



A wave of teacher layoffs set to wash over Georgia politics
3:00 pm May 22, 2010, by Jim Galloway


A wave that Georgia Republicans have feared for the better part of a year is approaching the shoreline.

This month, thousands of public school teachers across the state were formally notified that their services were no longer required. They will be joined in the unemployment line by thousands of others — school clerks, cafeteria workers and bus drivers.

Roughly 3,500 of the state’s 118,000 public school teachers are at risk, according to one estimate — although the state Department of Education says an exact count won’t be available until this fall.

State Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond says his department has prepared for 8,000 school-related applications for jobless benefits this summer.

Even more teachers and school workers could lose their jobs next year, as federal stimulus funding is depleted. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2010/05/22/a-wave-of-teacher-layoffs-set-to-wash-over-georgia-politics/

[Solly Mack]

1. k/r

[MadHound]

2. Georgia, Missouri, Florida, Texas, most of the country actually

The teaching profession is taking a huge hit. To make it worse, Obama is encouraging public school districts to put in charters, staffed with TFA grads, in order to cut costs. Yeah, the teachers are getting hit hard. Worse yet, an entire generation or more is going to be raised with substandard education.