Monday, March 16, 2009

California Teachers Rally as 26,000 Job Cuts Loom

California teachers organized protests in more than a dozen cities today as about 26,000 may lose their jobs because of spending cuts the Legislature approved last month to keep the state from running out of money.

School districts across the most-populous U.S. state have been warning thousands of teachers that they may be fired as a result of California’s declining tax collections.

[Blatant inaccuracy: our tax load was just raised to the highest in the country - it just didn't deliver the increases wanted, hence 'cuts' to the MSM.

Recall, we literally give our broken public education system more money from our state taxes than everything else combined.

Will we ever recognize it for the abysmal failure it is and give our children a future by privatizing it?]


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