Given Money, Schools Wait on Rehiring Teachers

[Francesca9]

Source: New York Times

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.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/18/business/economy/18teachers.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

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No one wants to spend anymore

[pezDispenser]

1. put money in the hands of consumers

its the only way to get this thing going again.

[kickysnana]

2. Due to budget cuts there is no business done in July til Aug 15

This is propaganda Nobody is there to answer the phones and haven't been there in the summer for years. It is that bad.

[lumberjack_jeff]

3. It also has to do with teacher contracts.

I'll bet most districts would prefer to hire teachers on a substitute/temporary basis if there's no guarantee of revenue continuity.

[EFerrari]

5. That's a really good point. nt

[mike r]

4. Companies are hoarding cash instead of hiring more workers

Looks like the school board drones are aping the corporate MBAs.

[4_TN_TITANS]

6. Like our governor Bredesen said...

Congress was way too late on this action for it to affect this school year. It would have been entirely different if the states had received this money months ago when local districts would have had time to plan for it.

[and-justice-for-all]

7. That funding is specificly for rehiring or maintaining teaching staff..

if they do not use it, then it needs to taken back.