'Don't worry. It's only 100,000 teachers--not 300,000'
WaPo liar Lane sounds like BP's Hayward
Lane's Post Partisan blog is anything but. Here he echoes the very partisan teacher/union bashers and tries to run the big lie past us, that firing hundreds of thousands of teachers is no big deal.
Well, 300,000 teacher layoffs would increase the national student-teacher ratio in public schools from 15.3 to 1, to 16.6 to 1 – roughly where it was in 1997. And 100,000 teacher layoffs would increase it to 15.6 to 1 – the 2005 level. Neither number portends educational apocalypse.
Lane must not read the Chicago papers. CPS class size is projected to increase to 35/class. In L.A. the Times