Official Says 200 Montgomery Teacher Jobs Need to Be Cut

[TexasTowelie]

Alabama’s interim state superintendent says about 200 teacher positions in Montgomery will have to be eliminated in order to stabilize finances.

Al.com reports interim superintendent Ed Richardson also says Montgomery will need to outsource about 400 support jobs. He says the Alabama Education Association could have prevented those job cuts for Montgomery Public Schools if the group had not gone to court to block his plan to sell Georgia Washington Middle School to the town of Pike Road.

Richardson led a state intervention into the Montgomery school system due to financial and academic problems.

Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange joined Richardson during Thursday's news conference. The city has no authority over education, but did expend time and money studying the possibility of a city school system before determining it was not feasible.

Read more: http://apr.org/post/official-says-200-montgomery-teacher-jobs-need-be-cut

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Because what the world needs is fewer teachers.

[yallerdawg]

2. There's a subtext of racial animosity in this little gem of Alabama.

The city is seeing white flight to surrounding cities and counties, like Prattville, which actually calls itself "The Preferred Community." This Town of Pike Road school system just broke off from Montgomery County school system, so there's something true in that accusation regarding the Superintendent.

With majority-black schools like Jeff Davis and Robert E. Lee, our students are immersed in the same old racial affronts on a daily basis, and you see the solution is to cut teachers, the human resource.

Yeah, the mayor says it is unfeasible for the city to pick up this problem. What they really want - and may need - is Federal oversight and control. The State of Alabama gets an F.

[trof]

3. "stabilize finances"

What a great euphemism for screw the students.

Yep, too many teachers in Alabackwards is a YUUUGE problem.