Despite what you may have heard, there are lots of other things that schools can (and are) doing to save money besides laying teachers off:
Four day weeks are the least common strategy from the look of it. Some are raising revenue from new, private sources, as this WSJ article describes.
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Where are our priorities if the top two things that are being done to save our schools money are to:#1. increase class size and #2) layoff workers? Both of these two issues affect our students and the quality of their education immensly...
Posted by: Liz | June 16, 2010 at 10:27 AM