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School Daze: Schools need to be creative to make up for serious budget cuts
- 07-04-2010
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By Marcella S. Kreiter/UPI
As the summer heats up, school districts across the United States are trying to shore up budgets and realign programs pressured by gaps in state aid and other recession-triggered shortfalls. Some 300,000 public school personnel nationwide -- more than half of them teachers -- received pink slips before the end of the school year, and though some likely will be retained thousands likely won't be seeing the inside of a classroom again for some time. The National Education Association estimates there were 3.23 million elementary and secondary teachers in the 2008-09 school year. (more...)
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