424 schoolteachers to head for disaster areas (JAPAN)

[AsahinaKimi]

The Yomiuri Shimbun

The education ministry plans to increase the number of schoolteachers in disaster-hit areas by more than 400 to help handle student's emotional needs and improve schooling, sources said Thursday.

The Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry plans to dispatch not only teachers but also former teachers and others holding teaching licenses to support education in three prefectures--Miyagi, Iwate and Ibaraki--that bore the brunt of the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake. Some teachers will be sent to Niigata Prefecture, which was struck by a large earthquake the following day.

A total of 424 teachers will be dispatched to work from May to March in principle. The ministry plans to increase the number of teachers by 236 in Miyagi Prefecture (134 for primary schools, 78 for middle schools, 20 for high schools and four for special-needs schools) and by 155 in Iwate Prefecture (78, 56 and 21 for primary, middle and high schools, respectively). Ibaraki Prefecture will receive 23 teachers and Niigata Prefecture will get 10.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110428006598.htm
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I would like to hope, this would happen in the United States if we had such a mega disaster, but somehow I feel like Republicans would BE against it.

[snappyturtle]

1. The repukes would allow a private entity posing as an educational

institution.