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

ED Surge

Even before the federal government closed the spigot on billions in emergency funds for schools, declining student enrollment already had districts fretting over how they would balance their books. In Portland, Oregon, the school district is mapping out job cuts by campus to offset a looming $30 million budget deficit.

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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. It’s projected to further decline to 880,000 by 2040. The number of 18-year-olds here has dropped by nearly half in just three decades, from more than 2 million in 1990 to 1.1 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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