{"id":393944,"date":"2010-03-05T12:30:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T17:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/economics\/2010\/03\/05\/cities-cut-education-jobs-amid-budget-pressures\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T12:30:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T17:30:42","slug":"cities-cut-education-jobs-amid-budget-pressures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/393944","title":{"rendered":"Cities Cut Education Jobs Amid Budget Pressures"},"content":{"rendered":"

The education sector has been a rare bright spot in the labor market, but as cities face mounting budget pressures the pain spread to their school systems last month, the government\u0092s payroll tally showed Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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The education sector as a whole added a net 11,000 jobs in February, but local governments shed 24,100 positions from public education. The only industry that cut more jobs was construction, which has been hard-hit throughout the recession and may have been influenced by severe winter weather that idled workers. In contrast, public education payrolls aren\u0092t as likely to be influenced by winter weather since teachers and principals are paid whether or not school is in session for the day.<\/p>\n

It\u0092s the third monthly drop in local government education payrolls and further cuts are most likely ahead. Cities are expected to see budget deficits between $12 billion and $19 billion next year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cutbacks are already in process in many school districts nationwide. The Los Angeles school district has begun the process of laying off 4,700 employees<\/a>, including counselors, teachers and administrators. The Scottsdale, Ariz. education association is bracing for cuts that likely include firing teachers<\/a> and in Monticello, N.Y. administrators are considering closing an elementary school<\/a> to save between $1.2 million and $1.8 million.<\/p>\n

State budgets are in a similarly painful budgetary situation with $103 billion in deficits expected across 42 states in 2011<\/a>. Last month state employment held up fairly well, though. State governments added 6,000 jobs overall. State education added 7,000 jobs.<\/p>\n

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The education sector has been a rare bright spot in the labor market, but as cities face mounting budget pressures the pain spread to their school systems last month, the government\u0092s payroll tally showed Friday. Teachers employed by local governments are feeling the jobs pinch. (AFP\/Getty Images) The education sector as a whole added a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":850,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}