Analysis:
The House adjourned a week ago, but due to a last minute passage of additional bailout funding to states for being unable to manage their own finances, they will come back for another round of spending. On Tuesday, they are set to vote on the Senate amendment to H.R. 1586 that was originally a House FAA authorization bill replaced now with a $26.1 billion bailout that includes $10 billion to teachers’ salaries and $16.1 billion for extension of Federal Medicaid matching rates. The House will take up the measure on Tuesday as well as a privileged resolution from Representative Price (GA-6) pledging that Congress not assemble for a lame-duck session after the election unless emergency action by Congress is needed. After voting on these two measures, the House will likely recess until September 13th.
Major Floor Action:
- H.R. 1586 – Senate Amendment to Education Jobs and Medicaid Assistance Act
Major Committee Action:
- No major committee action this week.
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I wait for September 13th
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Today I had to choose between giving my daughter ( a teacher ) a little spending money, or keeping it for myself. I chose to give it to her. Teachers are important and deserve our support and a living wage. I am blessed to live in a great school district and I am aware of how a good school system can run. I am appalled how much it costs to run a bad school system. I am angry that we are in this position. It is wrong that we are asked to chose cutting teachers or not……..as if it is the only solution..
I will do without for my daughter But you must learn to live within your means like I do. Before I would cut a teacher, I would cut you. I say pay the teachers and police and firemen first . Then pay everybody in government 10% less except those that earn over $100m( pay them 15% less). Lay off the useless people in useless government jobs, What does the dept of energy do again? I will pick my representative with more care in the future.
Thanks for your support. As a hardworking teacher, I have not received a raise in three years, but I have taken pay cuts to ensure others can remain employed. I start work at 7:30 each morning and even though my "teaching day" ends at 3:30, I remain at school planning lessons and doing a phenomenal amount of record-keeping and administrative paperwork until 5:30 or 6 p.m. Then I toss whatever's left into my briefcase and take the rest home. In the course of a day, I help at least 105 students, all of whom I evaluate, while I'm sharing–and we're practicing–new content on a daily basis. Every second that I teach I have to be totally "on"…there's no relaxing ever.
I love what I do and especially seeing my wonderful students make leaps and bounds. But few people understand how hard teachers work.
Folks, we all need more money but we should not depend on the gov't. for more spending money.
if your president would try and create jobs rather than fliting around the country trying to raise money for his party and listen to all the peoples will we might have a viable United States of America.
There is no doubt that teachers are one of the most valued contributors to the future of our society. And there should be little doubt that the Federal Government is the biggest contributor to the failure of our society. The US Dept of Education should be abolished so the States can meet education needs for local communities as needed. I have reviewed the schools in Costa Rica, where the education costs are ten percent of that in America, yet the literacy rates are thirty percent higher. The teachers are the most respected and well paid in the community. This is because the parents are involved at a local level, and they don't rely on expensive bureaucratic government programs to take care of them.
Dear Lindsey Burke,
You are obviously totally unaware of what is going on in the classroom. The fund for salaries is not just for those teachers who are laided off. There are tens of thousands of kids who are getting up to 7 days off of the school year ( furough) to reduce the salaries and costs of conducting school. I don't think you would like your son or daughter to get a high school education with 7 less school days a year. For families that's another 7 days they need to pay for day care, and 7 less days to get their child to pass exit exams for a diploma. At our district we (the union) voted and decided to get less pay to keep our classified staff from being laid off. That's right. We elected to get paid less, so some families would not go without an income at all.
This is not to mention that we only have $200 a year to pay for all office and paper supplies. This means that teachers pay for the paper that your child uses in the classroom at times. I have worked in several districts in California for 20 years, and at this time we are at the all time low for funding.
Get your sources right before you accuse teacher unions of being greedy.
This should all boil down to a states rights issue. The Federal Government was not intended to control everything that walked, talked and breathed, organic or otherwise. Our lives would be better off if we did not live in the shadow of the feds. We need to get back into the Constitution and get back to a supreme court that does not legislate from the bench.
I too support the teachers, firemen and policemen, however I can not support a government that dictates what kind of propaganda it decides should be taught to our children. Both of my parents are retired school teachers. I can tell you that as little as fifteen years ago they were not making nearly what teachers make today and they sure as heck didn't retire on much. That is considering a modest inflation rate. I do remember them griping about "school administrators" their whole career!
Teachers today who tomorrow?. Te biggest portion will go to the union big wigs. All these bail out has to stop. States need to be responsible for their own debt. The liberals are very free with tax payers money. They have borrow and now the intrest is out of sight. It has to stop.
There will never be enough tax dollars when it comes to union jobs. The unions are hurting for their dues and if jobs are lost so are their dues. There is also never going to be enough taxes collected to pay the pensions. Remember these jobs do not create revenue therefore the more government jobs created the sooner we all go broke because there is not enough people to pay all the pensions.
The government will always threaten to cut jobs in areas that would cause us to panic, such as teachers, police and firefighters.
We need to hold our government accountable to cut in other places first.
Places like spending for many vacations by our Presidents family, congress and signs that cost millions to say that it was a stimulus project. We are all broke.