Governor Rick Perry recently announced staggering budget cuts for Texas (and no raise in taxes), including cutting billions of dollars for education and proposing to eliminate the Texas Historical Commission and the Texas Commission on the Arts. How will these budget cuts affect you?
INSTRUCTIONS: Discuss the budget cuts and their immediate effects on you and the people you know. Then finish the sentence "Texas Education budget cuts will affect me in the following ways:" Please list at least 3 ways these cuts will touch your life or the lives of people you know.
Ms. Davis's Answer:
Because of the budget cutbacks, MISD is on a hiring freeze. This means that they hope to save money without layoffs by not replacing teachers who leave or retire. Because we will still have the same amount of students, this means that some classes will simply be dropped, and the ones that aren't will be crowded with the extra students. This means less individual attention, more distractions in the classroom, and more paperwork for teachers. Friends who work in DISD are not so lucky - DISD has announced layoffs of 3,100 educators. My brother and a good friend are both in certification classes to become educators next fall, and now they almost certainly won't be able to find teaching jobs. These are just a few obvious effects, but the worst probably remains to be seen.
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