GCPS Superintendent: Sequestration Cuts Would Result in Loss of $3.4 Million for School System
The White House has released a state-by-state breakdown of what the budget cuts could mean. In Gwinnett County, school district officials say its means losing critical dollars for Title I programs.
Gwinnett County Public Schools officials have released a statement regarding the impending across-the-board federal budget cuts, known as sequestration. In the statement, GCPS Superintendent J. Alvin Wilbanks said the cuts would cost the state's largest school district approximately $3.4 million in Title I monies and allocations for special education. (Read the full statement below.) Earlier this month, board members Carole Boyce and Mary Kay Murphy traveled to Washington, D.C., to fight the budget cuts. And, now the White House has released a breakdown showing that teacher jobs and funding to education children with disabilities will be hampered. The cuts are slated to take effect Friday, March 1. In Georgia, according to the White House…
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Kay Woodruff
7:58 am on Sunday, March 3, 2013
If Obama and congress. Would cut the waste from the government agencies there would be no need to cut essentials---elaborate private bathrooms for congressmen, 85 different agencies to address education, finding for robotic monkeys, elaborate conferences costing millions for each of the separate government agencies some of which enjoy more than one per year, decrease in number of government … more ›