The schools were compelled to lay off teachers last spring but the state was not sitting idle. They went immediately to Washington asking for funds to save the ravaged budgets of education. The federal government has stepped forward with $10 billion but some of the largest school districts are hesitating to use the funds to start re-hiring teachers immediately.
They are arguing that the economic climate is getting worse and even bigger deficits are yawning ahead for the forthcoming academic session. So these funds should be preserved to ward off further retrenchment. For instance Los Angeles is saddled with a budget gap of $280 million for the coming year and this could jeopardize more jobs.

Lydia L. Ramos speaking on behalf of Los Angeles Unified School District said that they had a “Herculean task” to tackle with deficit of the following year. “So if there’s a way that you can lessen the blow for next year, we feel like it would be responsible to try to do that”.

The district had discharged 682 teachers together with counselors and 2,000 other supporting employees last spring. It was unsure if they would be able to re-hire any of them with the funds coming in. The district apprehends that in the following year it would be compelled to cut 4,500 jobs.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City pledged that no teachers would lose their jobs in the current year but in exchange there would be no increment in salaries. A spokesperson said that the federal aid had already been calculated in the budget of the city.

Nearly 3,000 teachers had been laid off in New Jersey last May. Governor Chris Christie’s team is concerned that the money coming from Washington would only postpone decisions to be settled later on. It was not clear how much would immediately be spent.

Michael Drewniak speaking on behalf of the governor said, “It’s a real double-edged sword. This money will not be there next year, and we’re not going to get back up to the funding that they had previously been used to”.
On 10th August the president had inked an aid package that allocated $10 billion for the school districts. It was expected that with the money further retrenchments would not take place and those discharged would be re-hired. The money left over would be directed for the taking care of the health needs of the poor etc.

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