What’s a Few Hundred Teacher Jobs Lost Here, When 250,000 Have Been Saved Elsewhere?
Don't wallow in the District's bad news about teacher layoffs! While hundreds are being booted from schools here under orders from Michelle Rhee, some 250,000 teachers elsewhere across the country are celebrating. Yay!
Here's a sampling of the education jobs the Obama administration says have been saved or created by federal stimulus plan dollars, according to "media reports and anecdotal accounts to the U.S. Department of Education" over the last nine months.
Los Angeles: 6,326
New York City: 4,000
Miami Dade County, Fla.: 1,944
Las Vegas: 1,100
Boston: 370
Indianapolis: 242
Richmond: 72
Rochester, Minn.: 62 (teachers rehired)
Akron, Ohio: 60 (layoffs averted)
Sand Springs, Okla.: 46
Scottsbluff, Neb.: 18
As noted in the Washington Post, the report "does not address how many education jobs have been cut this year because of the recession, nor does it project how many are in jeopardy in the coming year." But forget that. And forget D.C. And anywhere else schools are hurting. Just celebrate!
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3:58 pm
Rhee is either a liar or a bad manager. She hired 900 teachers, now fires 200.
In the rest of the country, school officials used stimulus money to save jobs. Here in the District, Rhee used stimulus money to manipulate the schools' teaching positions to try to fire good teachers.
Rhee should be given a pink slip and sentenced to serve five years in a re-education camp so she will learn to behave better toward the proletariat. Rhee could exist only in the District, home of the beaten down poor people & disinterested, navel-gazing transient yuppies.