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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Jersey Jazzman: Rhee LOVES Layoffs

Jersey Jazzman: Rhee LOVES Layoffs

Rhee LOVES Layoffs

Over at the studentfirst.org, St. Rhee is using the millions of dollars she's collected from billionaires to tug at our heartstrings:

First of all, I want to be clear that I am not criticizing any of the teachers in this video. They probably all deserve to be on the job, and students are probably missing out because they have been laid off.

Which begs the question: WHY have they been laid off? Well...
CARSON CITY -- The Clark County School District might be able to avoid mass teacher layoffs, even with the 6.9 percent reduction in state support that came out of the Legislature's special session on Sunday, an administrator said.
Joyce Haldeman, the district's associate superintendent of government relations, could not provide