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States lay off 58,000 teachers in September despite $26 billion aid package

  • 10-11-2010
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By Arthur Delaney/Huffington Post

State and local governments laid off nearly 58,000 teachers and other education workers in September, the government announced on Friday. The layoffs happened even though some have said the $26 billion bill passed by Congress in August was nothing but a sop for teacher unions. Progressive economists said Friday that the layoffs would have been much worse without the aid, $10 billion of which was expressly allotted to prevent teacher layoffs. (more…)

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