Big meeting today between GCS Supt. Mo Green and Guilford County Commissioners on the forthcoming budget. Grim news coming from Raleigh (via N&R):[Gov.] Perdue’s office has warned school systems to prepare from anywhere between a 3-7 percent budget decrease. That would mean Guilford County could lose between $10.8 million and $23.7 million in state funding.
That's a major hit, folks. Major, indeed. And consider this:
School officials said if those cuts occur teacher job cuts would be almost unavoidable, even with the cuts in other areas they are already considering. Some of those job loses could be absorbed through attrition but how many would depend on the depth of the budget cuts, Green said.
“To get up into $20 million its' going to be people, it's going to be teachers,” said school board member Darlene Garrett.
This is unfortunate.
E.C. :)
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It's funny how teacher cuts are unavoidable right out of the gate but jobs at Central and such are being "considered." It appears that the teacher-student relationship that has always been the core of educating our students has now been replaced.
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