Bousquet: full employment for educators and restrictions on student labor

by E Wayne Ross on February 13, 2009

The Chronicle: Stimulating Higher Ed

By Marc Bousquet

Take students out of the workforce and create real jobs for educators.

This week, lawmakers will meet to forge a compromise between the House and Senate versions of the stimulus bill. The likely consequence will be something similar to the Senate version, which targeted education funds for aggressive reductions — chopping an average almost $1-billion per state in funds that would largely have gone to help meet payroll for teachers.