School Cuts And 'Reforms' Feed The Prison Pipeline

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As educators close out this school year and go into planning mode for the next, what many of them truly dread is the fiscal nightmare being handed to them by miserly state governments who've decided to balance their budgets on the backs of helpless school children.

According to a new survey conducted by the American Association of School Administrators, three-quarters of school districts will be eliminating jobs in 2011-12, sending nearly a quarter of a million of the nation's public school educators and their support staff into the ranks of the unemployed.

Now that state legislators and governors have passed their decrees, someone has to do the actual dirty work of deciding who, what, and how to slash from the payroll and withhold from the starving public. So many school administrators are grasping for unheard of straws.

[yurbud]

1. like pharoah telling the Israelites to make bricks without straw...

schools will be starved of funds, then when they don't do well on the standardized tests, they'll be starved even more or have their bright kids siphoned off to charter schools.