The Education Wars: Ugliness

Thanks to Nevada's economy going south, Nevada's schools are negatively impacted, and things are about to get much uglier. To hell with the kids:

Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons has suggested a 10 percent cut to education in his budget plan, released Tuesday. Gibbons also called for a 1.75 percent reduction in wages for all state workers, including those on the Washoe County School district payroll.

According to Morrison, this would mean between $30 and 40 million would have to be cut from the Washoe County School District’s budget. For the Washoe County School District, the 10 percent scenario could mean four more students added to each classroom and about 400 teachers could possibly lose their jobs, according to school district spokesman Steve Mulvenon. However, both Mulvenon and Morrison have emphasized the unknown in these projections.

“I was talking to a local TV station today and they were grilling me hard about the specific scenarios for the cuts,” Morrison told a father in the town hall crowd who asked for specifics. “We have a lot of staff who haven’t seen a weekend in a while working on that exact question. But am I prepared to share them (the cut scenarios)? Here is the problem. We don’t know what we are going to have to cut.”