Obama Administration Makes Emergency Funding Request for Teachers By Stephen Clark - FOXNews.com
Despite President Obama's pledge for honest budgeting and billions of dollars in stimulus money spent to save teachers' jobs, the Education Department is asking for off-the-books emergency funding to keep local districts from laying off school teachers next school year.
President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan stand with 35-year-old Johnston High School teacher Sarah Brown Wessling of Iowa, the 2010 National Teacher of the Year, during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 29, 2010. (AP) Despite President Obama's pledge for honest budgeting and billions of dollars in stimulus money spent to save teachers' jobs, the Education Department is asking for off-the-books emergency funding to keep local districts from laying off school teachers next school year.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan sent Democratic lawmakers a request Thursday to pass a $26 billion emergency supplemental to fund up to 300,000 teachers' jobs that he says will otherwise be lost in the fall.
Administration officials want to add the teacher funding to a $60 billion supplemental request sent to Congress to pay for ongoing military operations in Afghanistan as well as Haiti relief and money for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The Senate Appropriations Committee passed that measure on Thursday but Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, has said he is reluctant to load the bill with additional spending goodies.
The request comes just a year after an unprecedented $100 billion in federal stimulus money was allocated to school districts as part of the $863 billion recovery act. Of that amount, $48 billion was designated for saving teachers' jobs and investing in educational programs. Another $31 billion in stimulus funds were sent to states for Pell grants, competitive funds and programs helping disadvantaged students.
An additional $21 billion in stimulus money is still available but not yet obligated for district expenses, according to the U.S. Education Department.
School districts nationwide have gotten b/millions of dollars already. They are using it for repairs and upgrades (many unnecessary) to their existing buildings. And who do you suppose gets the contracts? UNIONS!
Now, adding insult to injury, obama want to bailout the teachers. UNIONS!
This is how our 'false' unemployment rate declined 'slightly'. Just like how our global market is 'falsely' inflated.
All funded by taxpayer's money....not by economics or business growth!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Again, Fox news makes the spin of saying the Obama administration is asking for the money. The education secretary asks Congress to give her the money to save teacher jobs. I say give them the money but only if the unions are willing to rip up contracts and start over with talks.
The cancer that is eating up our country economically is and will continue to grow. Giving more money to pay for teachers is outlandish at best.
It's like I said before.....the times of power, greed and plenty are OVER! Billions of taxpayers money is not going to stop the financial hemorrhaging. It's been 2 year2 (including bush II ) and it has only gotten worse! It is clearly nothing more than a temporary band aid. Let it all fall and let's start all over again.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Stein this is what the administration wants to do, Administration officials want to add the teacher funding to a $60 billion supplemental request sent to Congress to pay for ongoing military operations in Afghanistan as well as Haiti relief and money for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The Senate Appropriations Committee passed that measure on Thursday but Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, has said he is reluctant to load the bill with additional spending goodies. I don't care who wants money for what enough is enough, the teachers already got money from the stimulus bill now they want more.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
We have the NYS LOTTO to save our edumacation system......yeah,,,,real real backbone for the next generation of gumbas.......tear up the contracts shred the scratchoffs and shoot the horses.......oh my... there goes NYS.......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
the problem is trying to save an antiquated system....who was ready for the computers/kindles/cell phones etc????--------NO ONE......dont save them change them.......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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