Did Obama's Poster Teacher re: stimulus and jobs ever recover from being laid off?

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Teacher Who Served as Symbol of Jobs Measure Gets Laid Off

Her district held on to the stimulus money and fired 14 teachers. She was actually laid off twice - first, because of budget, and second, because of 'enrollment' issues (her second job was as a sub - it pays slightly above minimum wage).

For a while, it looked like a federal measure aimed at supporting teachers and other state and local workers had helped save Amanda VanNess's job. It turned out it was only a temporary reprieve.

In July, the 25-year-old Ms. VanNess lost her job teaching kindergarten at Pickett Elementary School in Toledo, Ohio, as a result of cuts that came after voters rejected an income-tax increase aimed at shoring up a budget deficit at the Toledo Public School District.

In August, the White House had contacted Ms. VanNess's union and invited her to Washington to watch as the House, in a special one-day session, passed a $26 billion plan to save teachers' jobs, and then to stand by President Barack Obama as he signed the bill in the Oval Office.

"The idea was, with this bill passing, it was going to give teachers a better chance of being called back," Ms. VanNess said.

Indeed, Ms. VanNess's district received $7.6 million of federal funds. And the day before school started in late August, the school district called Ms. VanNess back to work, on a one-year basis, teaching second grade.

They held on to that 7.6 million for the next year. I can't seem to find if she got a new job. The state also cut $350m from the education budget, so we're all suffering.

What a joke. The US wants Bentley educations at Saturn prices. Not only are we grossly underpaid and freakishly overworked, we're apparently not needed and in demand at the same time. Conservatives and lefties (that's you, Obama the Education Killer) both say that teachers should get merit pay (a justification for our low salaries) but it doesn't work.

Stimulus funds running out; teacher jobs in jeopardy

On top of that, two years ago, DISD received about $100 million in federal stimulus money. Using 30 percent of that money, the district added about 300 positions.

Obama is pretty anti-teacher, but I doubt teachers associations will stick up to him. They don't want 'the alternative'.

 

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Wall Street Journal has become a rag since News Corp bought them.

 

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