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States Make Huge Education Cuts Across the U.S.

05/20/2010 10:04 pm 0 comments

Source: CBS News

Every state is getting hit. That includes 36,000 teachers who could lose their jobs in California; twenty thousand in Illinois; sixteen-thousand six hundred in New York. So many teachers are out of work that districts with one or two openings are inundated with thousands of applications.

“We want to stave off an education catastrophe,” said Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. “And the cost of inaction for our children and for our country I think is unacceptably high.”

With all the cuts the next school year is looking like the bleakest and most austere in 50 years, with school districts not only cutting teachers, but cutting programs, cutting school hours, enlarging classes, closing schools – all to save money. In many schools, art, music, physical education, even counseling could be history.

“We want to stave off an education catastrophe,” said Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. “And the cost of inaction for our children and for our country I think is unacceptably high.”

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