Shia Strength: [MahdiUniteMuslims] Layoff Notices Sent to Thousands of US Teachers [1 Attachment]

Saturday, April 24, 2010

[MahdiUniteMuslims] Layoff Notices Sent to Thousands of US Teachers [1 Attachment]

[Attachment(s) from nathaniel x vance included below]

Dear Group,
When Ronald W. Reagan was elected president in 1980, of the so-call 30 industrialized nations, we ranked at the top! Today, just 30 years later, we are now near the bottom in Science and Math! And now, to make matters even worst, we are downsizing our school teachers in just about every city and state across this entire nation!
Is it because we and most of our mindless legislators have lost focus on the true things that really matters the most to us citizen, such as life, liberty and the pursuit on happiness for all Americans? Instead, we are now hell-bent on trying to be the big warmongering bully internationally and trying to continue racist policies such as persecuting the poor and Afro-Americans by locking up as many of them in for-profit prisons where only the stockholders like Dick Cheney can make 30-50 thousand taxpayer dollars per inmate a year.
Did you know that we are 5% of the world population, yet right here in America, we have 25% of the world-incarcerated population?

Can anyone tell us why we are allowing this to happen in this so-call Christian nation??

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Layoff Notices Sent to Thousands of US Teachers

Hundreds of thousands of public school teachers across the United States are facing possible layoffs this coming academic year.

Confronting massive budget deficits, school districts throughout the country have been sending out notices ("pink slips") to employees this spring, warning them that they are unlikely to have a job in the fall. The bloodletting is worst in California, Illinois, New York, Michigan, and New Jersey, but nearly every region in the country is affected.

Pink slips were sent out to 22,000 teachers in California, 17,000 in Illinois, and 15,000 in New York. The jobs of 8,000 school employees in Michigan, 6,000 in New Jersey, and 5,000 in Oklahoma may also be axed.

These numbers are expected to increase in coming months. Officials in Illinois report that as many as 20,000 educators could lose their jobs in the state. In California, an additional 4,000 people may be put on notice.

US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan stated earlier this week that between 100,000 to 300,000 public education positions in the US are in danger. A study conducted by the American Association of School Administrators found that ninety percent of the nation's school superintendents plan to cut jobs in the fall. This represents an increase of about 30 percent over the previous year.

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