Starving America's Public Schools - financially - an important new report
This week a critically important new report was jointly released by the National Education Association and Campaign for America's Future. It was written by our own Jeff Bryant, who isalso a Fellow at the Campaign for America's Future, and who led a panel (on which I participated) at that organization's recent Take Back the American Dream Conference. Jeff's most recent post here, If We Want 'Great Teachers,' Don't We Need To Give Them Jobs?, refers to the report he authored. In that piece he wrote pf the experience of writing the report
What I discovered was that huge cuts enacted by state legislatures across the country are having catastrophic effects on our nation's teaching force and in turn the education opportunities available to our children and youth.In community after community, I came across clear signs that our schools are in dire straits due to severe decreases in teacher jobs. In so many places, all art and music teachers are being fired. Teachers who help children with developmental problems or emotional issues are being let go.