California is failing its teachers, says report
SACRAMENTO
December 14, 2010 6:32am
Budget cuts of more than $20 billion from California’s schools over the past three years have made it tougher for teachers to help students meet increasing expectations for academic achievement and have badly damaged the state’s ability to recruit and prepare new teachers needed for the future, according to a yearly report on California’s teaching workforce by the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning.
SACRAMENTO
December 14, 2010 6:32am
• Gloomiest job outlook in years
• ‘California’s teaching workforce is running on empty’
Budget cuts of more than $20 billion from California’s schools over the past three years have made it tougher for teachers to help students meet increasing expectations for academic achievement and have badly damaged the state’s ability to recruit and prepare new teachers needed for the future, according to a yearly report on California’s teaching workforce by the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning.
“California’s teaching workforce is running on empty,” says Margaret Gaston, president and executive director of the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning in Sacramento. “The fiscal crisis has so severely