With stimulus funding coming to an end and the economic crisis still imperiling local finances, several cities across the country are feeling
the education budget crunch and responding with layoffs — or threats of layoffs.
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As the
budget process moved into
crunch time, the focus was less on mayoral control and more on
education reforms the governor was seeking.
With the state in a
budget crunch and losing $ 1 million in
education money for every day the video lottery terminals at Aqueduct Race Track are not up and running, a spokesman for Gov. David Paterson said there is no deadline for selecting a firm to run the machines at the Ozone Park track.
The Board of
Education was thrilled to be on the cutting edge of innovation, but when a
budget crunch hit a year later, they immediately looked to cut the professional development that the educators thought were needed.
London Councils, which represents the 32 London boroughs, plus the City of London, fears
crunch time is rapidly approaching for the capital's
education budgets.
In the article, Colorado
Education Association (CEA) spokesman Mike Wetzel attributed the decline to two factors: 1) a shrinking teacher workforce due to
budget cuts and layoffs, and 2) an economic
crunch causing teachers to feel they could not afford to pay union dues.
Still, in these
budget crunched times, citizens have been dismayed that the board, led by former Superintendent Larry Nyland, would reject a quarter of a million dollars for democracy
education across all neighborhoods and schools in Seattle.