North Carolina public schools have lost 16,677.9 positions and laid off 6,096.7 people since the 2008-09 school year in response to state budget cuts, according to the most recent data reported by local school districts and released this week by the NC Department of Public Instruction. It is also important to note, that over that same period of teacher and educator job cuts, North Carolina public school enrollment has grown.
In 2012, education leaders say that they expect additional educator layoffs and position losses. In June 2012, $400 million in federal “EduJobs” funding will end. These federal dollars have been used by local school districts to preserve teaching and instructional support positions. More than 4,000 jobs are being covered by these funds in the 2011-12 school year.
The 2011-12 year showed the largest number of positions eliminated – 6,307.5 – and the largest number of layoffs, 2,418.1 but there have been steady cuts each year since 2008.
You can read the full report at our article here.
Don’t forget to visit downtown Henderson this afternoon 5:30pm to 8:30pm for a free live concert! Breckenridge street will be closed to host the event. This is right where the library and city police department is if you aren’t sure.
anyone else receive their property tax bill yesterday (8/31/11), due today (9/1/11).
way to go Vance County!!!
SS: Are you really surprised? Yes, mine arrived yesterday, but not to worry, I never pay it till the last possible day–its a protest thing.
Got mine too. I don’t mind paying taxes, but what shocked me was what they have my house valued at in the declining housing market. By the way I see where raleigh Road Theater is up for sale. I was hoping the Kopps could make a decent business out of that place.
He did make a decent business out of the place — unfortunately this is a Section 8 town full of crime. It is a hard place to have a decent business in. The rest of us really better wake up and scale back and limit the Section 8 before it is NOTHING but a slum.
Oxford is smart they limit section eight housing. Granville county is a lot more progressive than Vance county . All the new jobs seem to end up in Granville county.