Share Your Story: How are Budget Cuts Affecting Your School?

This Week’s Featured Story

Theresa T.
Robbins, North Carolina
Reading scores will suffer because students can’t use the library

Due to budget cuts, we lost 6 assistants and “special” teachers must go into the classroom to help teachers. I am a media specialist. I cannot be in the library, so children cannot check out books freely during the school day. I have no assistant and the library is locked when there is no adult to supervise the children. Our reading scores are going to suffer this year because students do not have open access to the library. I have one planning period a week and not enough time for administrative duties. I just finished a book fair and have 75 books that need to be processed and shelved, but I don’t have the time. So I will spend a weekend at school shelving books so the children can check them out. I feel inadequate as a teacher because I am not providing children with open library access—the kids want to read and I cannot be there to help them as I should.

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We know that budget cuts are happening in schools across the country, but we need your help to gauge the impact these cuts are having on your schools and students. Has your school moved to a four day school week, cut after-school programs or dropped foreign languages? Is your school in need of modernization, maintenance or supplies? Can the facilities at your community college prepare students for 21st century jobs? Share your story below and let us know how budget woes are affecting your school. We’ll use your stories to help put pressure on members of Congress to do the right thing and focus on creating a great public school for every student.