TPS teacher who watched Obama sign bill is laid off

[The Straight Story]

TPS teacher who watched Obama sign bill is laid off
Board not using $7.6M share to rehire workers


As Toledo Public Schools teacher Amanda VanNess stood in the Oval Office and watched President Obama sign an education stimulus bill, she already knew she'd lost her teaching job back home to budget cuts and low seniority.


The $26 billion stimulus bill, designed to save 160,000 teacher and other government jobs across the nation, couldn't save her position at Pickett Elementary.


In fact, Ms. VanNess has been laid off twice from TPS this year.

TPS hasn't spent a dollar of the $7.6 million in teacher rehire money it received from the Aug. 10 bill, opting instead to save it for next school year to rehire or retain a myriad school employees - probably not teachers.

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101015/NEWS04/10140328

[saigon68]

1. Disgusting

[xchrom]

2. A horrifying sign of the times.

[Hannah Bell]

3. isn't it ironic.

[dkf]

4. Well I guess the schools can increase classroom size but they can't get rid of the one school nurse

Or librarian.