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Teacher Layoffs Are Coming as Pandemic Relief Money for Schools Dries Up

ED Surge

In many cases, that means educator layoffs are coming. San Diego’s school board decided in early March to eliminate about 430 positions , roughly half of which will be educators , to contend with a $94 million budget shortfall.

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In Japan, plummeting university enrollment forecasts what’s ahead for the U.S.

The Hechinger Report

It’s projected to further decline to 880,000 by 2040, according to the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Formerly part of the Nakajima Aircraft Company, the building houses classrooms and the Institute for Educational Research and Service. million now. million now.

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America’s schools are crumbling. Fixing them could save lives (and the planet)

The Hechinger Report

But much as the pandemic forced a reckoning about the physical condition of America’s classrooms, it may also have cleared a way for the federal government to rebuild them. Aging windows at a Maryland school are pictured in a photo, published in a June 2020 report, taken by investigators with the Government Accountability Office.

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