Clark County, Nevada, discovered it has a deficit. A big one!
Because of poor planning and oversight, the district has a budget deficit of $80 million. It intends to lay off teachers and slash services for children. Most of the children in Clark County are poor.
Why should the children pay for the adults’ mismanagement?
Sign this petition on change.org, calling for actions to cut central Administration, not children or teachers.
Accountability starts at the top!
Diane Ravitch's blog 
“Accountability starts at the top!”
President Truman set that tone with “The Buck stops here”.
“The buck stops here” is a phrase that was popularized by U.S. President Harry S. Truman, who kept a sign with that phrase on his desk in the Oval Office. The phrase refers to the notion that the President has to make the decisions and accept the ultimate responsibility for those decisions.
But now we are in the Trump era where the liar in chief and champion womanizer and molester that supports rapists over their victims never accepts the blame for anything.
To Trump, failures are always someone else’s fault — never his because he is too great and too smart — but when something good happens, he takes credit for that even if someone else was responsible for it, or it never happened except as alternative news (lies) reported by the Alt-Right conspiracy theory media.
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Or cut “nonessential children” first…
http://www.theonion.com/article/cash-strapped-school-district-furloughs-hundreds-n-56935
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Adminimal Golden Rule: Always look out for self first!
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If Nevada funds its school based on student enrollment like most if not all state do, there are no “non-essential children” because of each child is a bag of public money. Even if a child was brain dead and on life support, as long as that child is reported as a student, that child is worth cash.
Schools don’t get paid for teachers, administrators, or support staff. They cost money and are expendable.
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This is the saddest and most devastating statement. What used to be “use money to help our nation’s 20% poorest kids and families” has in so many cases now turned into “use money to push out the poorest 20%”
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