K-12 Schools Continue to Shed Jobs
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Posted by: Michael Leachman
Posted in: Economic Recovery Watch, Recession and Recovery, State Budget and Tax, Unemployment
Today’s jobs report shows that local school districts continue to struggle with job losses. After school districts cut 7,000 positions in July, they now have 321,000 fewer teachers and other staff than they did when employment peaked in August 2008. As the graph below shows, local education jobs have been falling for four years.
Local education jobs are at their lowest point since October 2004, but K-12 schools educate hundreds of thousands more students than they did eight years ago. So many fewer teachers, administrators, and other staff in K-12 schools supporting such greater numbers of students undoubtedly hurts the quality of education that children receive.
The cuts to public employment rolls also hurt the recovery. When teachers and other public employees like police and firefighters lose their jobs, they have to cut back on spending. Less spending means fewer customers for businesses and a resulting drag on the recovery.
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Michael Leachman joined the Center in July 2009. He is the Director of State Fiscal Research with the State Fiscal Project.
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We should have a National Service program for all eighteen year olds. The selected best could be assigned to class rooms to assist every teacher in keeping an entire class up to the mark.
There is no possibility a one teacher having the ability to help all those in trouble.
A National Service program would help the helpers as much it would help those having trouble with reading.