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

ED Surge

In Portland, Oregon, the school district is mapping out job cuts by campus to offset a looming $30 million budget deficit. 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.

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

The Hechinger Report

Taken together, school facilities emit about 72 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year , the equivalent of about 18 coal power plants or 8.6 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.

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