Post by Logan on Mar 14, 2016 14:09:15 GMT -6
ANCHORAGE — Alaska’s schools are bleeding red ink.
The University of Alaska has said it will reorganize its campuses and may have to cut more than 8 percent of the staff, but professors are already heading for the exits. The state’s largest public school district, here in Anchorage, is cutting 49 teaching positions and increasing class sizes. And in tiny rural schools like Nightmute — which has 80 students in a village of about 300 people — the pain has almost reached the point of paralysis: Five of the school’s six teachers are leaving at the end of the school year.
The most troubling part, teachers, professors and administrators across the state said, is that things could get much worse — not least for morale.
“At every one of our campuses, something is likely to go away,” said James R. Johnsen, the president of the University of Alaska. “And if every campus is losing something, then every campus has a constituency that is aggrieved.”
Read more: www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/us/oil-collapse-drains-alaskas-wide-ranging-education-system.html
The University of Alaska has said it will reorganize its campuses and may have to cut more than 8 percent of the staff, but professors are already heading for the exits. The state’s largest public school district, here in Anchorage, is cutting 49 teaching positions and increasing class sizes. And in tiny rural schools like Nightmute — which has 80 students in a village of about 300 people — the pain has almost reached the point of paralysis: Five of the school’s six teachers are leaving at the end of the school year.
The most troubling part, teachers, professors and administrators across the state said, is that things could get much worse — not least for morale.
“At every one of our campuses, something is likely to go away,” said James R. Johnsen, the president of the University of Alaska. “And if every campus is losing something, then every campus has a constituency that is aggrieved.”
Read more: www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/us/oil-collapse-drains-alaskas-wide-ranging-education-system.html