The Orlando Sentinel published an interesting story this past weekend on how federal-stimulus money received earlier this year saved hundreds of teaching jobs and created dozens of new positions.
The district will receive approximately $30 million and a large portion of that went to saving jobs, the School distric report indicates. About 300 classroom teachers and 10 teachers aids were able to keep their posts.
About 80 new positions were created - mostly related to literacy coaches, special-education teachers and "achievement" liaisons, the report indicates.
Said Lake School Board Chairwoman Cindy Barrow: "I am always concerned about jobs that we create to improve student achievement, and I absolutely hope that we can continue to retain these important positions."
Here's a breakdown of most of the new positions created here in Lake:
•7 family school liaisons for $288,000.
•2 district-based instructional coaches for $94,000.
•8 literacy coaches for $752,000.
•1 homeless-project manager for $39,000.
•35 special-education teachers for $2.8 million.
•23 achievement liaisons for $1.7 million.
Read the complete Orlando Sentinel story at http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/lake/os-lk-stimulus-122709-20091226,0,3259391.story
Thank the Lord for stimulus dollars. Lake would be in even worst shape if it wasn't for this help.
Posted by: Tom Mack | 12/29/2009 at 11:41 AM