Ohio schools, faced with drastic budget cuts, are struggling to stay
afloat. Cash-strapped Cincinnati is planning to completely eliminate
seven schools next year, cramming their students into other existing
schools by raising class sizes and using mobile classrooms. This will
also eliminate as many as 600 teachers and staff, or more than 10
percent of the district's 5,800 employees. The National Priorities
Project estimates underfunding for the administration's No Child Left
Behind Actdirectly affected these budgets with a $225.7 million
shortfall in grants to the Buckeye State for Title I (the program
designed to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged students)
and an $8.8 million shortfall for programs to improve teacher quality. [more]
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