Graduation: Nearly 80K Heading To Military
"In a country that has been at war for nearly nine years, principals and students at highly regarded suburban schools say that interest has been growing in the military — and not Budgets: "Lay Us Off And The Kids Will Die"
That's the message from some public employee groups fighting against looming budget cuts, according to this USA Today story and the accompanying photo (from Class Size: Impact Of Layoffs Smaller Than You Might Think
"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... 100,000 teacher layoffs would increase it to 15.6 to 1 – the 2005 level.