WH Administration Lied about Sequestration pink slipping teachers in WV? (Obama, school)

[michiganmoon]

Meanwhile, the White House Makes Stuff Up About Cuts

Arne Duncan, Obama's Secretary of Education claimed that some West Virginia teachers have already gotten pink slipped due to sequestration.

Except...

The pink slips had already been planned and have nothing to do with sequestration. Arne Duncan and Jay Carney have both chosen not to respond as of yet.

Doesn't matter, main stream media will carry the water and those teachers will officially be counted as causalities of the "GOP War on Education during the Battle of Sequester."

[andrea3821]

Funding for education comes largely from the states and municipalities anyway. A federal sequestration would likely have little affect.

[texdav]

Sequestration is afterall onl;y takig us back to 2007 levels of spending. mnay americans are doig without even that now.Throwing money at education certaiy hasn't worked from results.

[pie_row]

Originally Posted by shooting4life

So we should just accept the presidents people lie to us.

What call for an accurate accounting from the government? Then they would say we are all screwed and the resulting panic would wreck the new bubble before it gets fully blown.

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by andrea3821

Funding for education comes largely from the states and municipalities anyway. A federal sequestration would likely have little affect.

I would hazard an educated guess that many school districts in W VA get extra federal funds for being high-poverty schools.

http://www.brighthubeducation.com/te...title-1-funds/
Title 1 is the nation’s oldest and largest federally funded program, according to the U.S. Department of Education. Annually, it provides over $14 billion to school systems across the country for students at risk of failure and living at or near poverty. In fact, over the course of the 2009-2010 school year, federal funding through this program was used by over 56,000 public schools nationwide in order for struggling students to meet state standards in a variety of subject areas.