Should Schools Get A Cut Of The Bailout?

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Wednesday, 14 January 2009 05:17

A recent article in USA Today describes one Ohio school leader's bid for $100 million in federal bailout money for school construction. Read the article and let us know what you think. Should schools get a cut of the pie? If banks, insurance companies and automakers are getting a piece of Washington's bailout largesse, why not cash-strapped schools? That's the thinking of officials at a few hard-pressed school systems, who have set wheels in motion to get a share of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, intended for ailing financial institutions, and the economic stimulus package now before Congress.

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written by Molly, January 16, 2009

So should the auto makers. Why should they receive such great severance packages? Teachers don't.

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written by Sarah B. Cathers, January 14, 2009

No! It's time we admit that schools cannot keep getting last-minute handouts. Is it easy, or fun? No, but it's the way things are. We have to deal with the budgets we have.

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