CNN reports that the New Orleans school system is broke.

New Orleans teachers will not get paid for periods after Hurricane Katrina because there is almost no money left in the city's strapped school system, an executive of the outside firm that runs the schools said Wednesday.

I guess it was a good thing for that hurricane to hit after all. Or maybe not. The system was in the process of finding an additional $50 million in order operate when the storm hit. This is George Bush's America. A major school system is out scrounging for money to keep the doors open and to pay teachers. Kind of makes you wonder about all that "no child left behind rhetoric." This in of itself is a disaster. The kind of "quiet" disaster happening every day in George Bush's America. Tax cuts for the rich, not even crumbs for the poor.
posted by Idle Crank at 9/14/2005 02:50:00 PM