Thanks, Arnie!
Tell us again how all our problems are Grey Davis’ fault, will ya?
But I’m sure the rich will still get to keep their tax breaks – heaven forbid they should help balance the budget or anything. No, we have to lose teachers instead.
Now WHY is it I’m not supposed to hate Republicans again?
Pink slips going out to 150 PUSD teachers | The Pomerado Newspaper Group
A 10 percent cut in teaching positions, larger class sizes and a reduction in the district’s transportation services are among $15.5 million in possible cuts Poway Unified officials are considering for the 2008-2009 budget.
Some of the most substantial savings for the district, as outlined by Superintendent Don Phillips during a special Board of Trustees meeting Monday evening, would be the result of laying off 150 teachers and increasing class sizes in grades four through 12. That move would save about $7.8 million, according to district estimates. The district has about a $258 million budget.
While all of the cuts are still in the preliminary stages, district officials are reacting to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed $4.4 billion slash in education funding to relieve a $16 billion state deficit.
The district’s preliminary plan calls for the elimination of 37 kindergarten teachers, 11 fourth- and fifth-grade teachers, 42 sixth- through eighth-grade teachers and 55 high school teachers.
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Wow!
Love this post. I hear your frustration about the Republican party. I am fortunate to live in Canada so I’m not as affected by it as you all are, but I feel for you. However, less than a year and you should have a new president. Thank God!! Hope it’s either Hillary or Obama.
Marg
How come we always hear about laying off teachers and not administrative/clerical persons?
At one time Dade County, Florida (now known as Miami-Dade County, that utterly meaningless name change cost the taxpayers millions of dollars just in re-signing, re-painting vehicles, etc., etc.), and maybe to this very day, had more non-teachers on its payroll than teachers (not to mention the faucets in the superintendent’s office toilet had actual gold plating).
I simply never believe public agencies when they bleat about lack of money.
I’m not too keen on administrative expenses, either. I suppose there is a belief that it’s easier to shrink class sizes, but I know how foolish that really is. They think the kids don’t need smaller classes at the higher grades, but that’s not true. Middle school kids need the most attention to me. It’s a lot easier to get a room full of fourth graders to shut up and listen than to get all the middle schoolers to pay attention. They don’t even have functioning brains at that age.
hate is OK Donna