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#46 radmonkey

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Posted 25 February 2010 - 04:25 AM

Unless of course the schools you apply to hire someone with a bachelors degree to save money, since they might be riffing either of you come the end of the school year anyway.  Good luck to you though..  I've aided in middle schools the two previous school years and am a substitute this year.  Despite poor short term outlook for teaching jobs [especially in the social sciences] I'm hoping to head back to school to pick up my teaching certificate in the Fall, hopefully endorsed in science as well as social studies.

Really? I thought with all the baby boomers retiring, they'd be demand. Although, I guess maybe that's long term?
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Posted 25 February 2010 - 09:47 AM

Really? I thought with all the baby boomers retiring, they'd be demand. Although, I guess maybe that's long term?


I'm in the far north suburbs, so I can't speak for everywhere, but it isn't an issue of people retiring. A lot of schools are struggling to keep the teachers they already have. The main district that I sub in is letting any teacher without 4 years in the district know that they may be let go at the end of the year because of lack of funding. The state will most likely get its act together and get the funding in before they have to do that, but it is a possibility that the district would have to get rid of something like 50 teachers, in a district that schools about 2400 kids.

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Posted 25 February 2010 - 03:21 PM

Really? I thought with all the baby boomers retiring, they'd be demand. Although, I guess maybe that's long term?


Just my experience - it seems like there's demand but not in social science (though there are some openings for economics - 9 credit hour endorsement but most social science people are scared away because it involves graphs and numbers- and in psychology - 18 credit hour endorsement which is too much for most people) and not in english. The big areas of demand are in math and science.

I would also concur about getting a Master's as not opening doors necessarily. When I got the Master's there were a few school districts in South Chicago/Southwest suburbs that I suddenly became too costly for.

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Posted 03 March 2010 - 05:22 AM

http://www.chicagotr...9382,full.story

• Project expected to be completed by 2012
• Temporary road will accommodate traffic during closures
• Sidewalks to link Roberts Rd and Harlem Ave

#50 Mr E

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Posted 03 March 2010 - 10:31 PM

Thanks for the article link. Temporary road will still suffer train delays, but at least the entire road will not be out of commission.

As for the talk of the infrastructure projects not affecting the recovery, the key word is "shovel-ready". Basically this means that these are projects which were already in the development process and could begin in relatively short order from the time the funds are allocated. Also, most of these projects are projects which communities already were planning to do, but which may have been deferred due to budget shortfalls had the stimulus funds not been provided or communities are using the addition of the stimulus funds for some projects to free up funds for projects which had been pushed back due to lack of funding. In order to qualify for this round of stimulus funds significant engineering would needed to have already been completed at the time of application for the funding (last summer). Also, in most instances, the stimulus funding is not slated to fund the entire project and the municipality must also pony up for a portion of the work. I know this because the municipality for which I work is also receiving stimulus funds to assist with the completion of several projects (I believe less that $1M all told) including one which has already been deferred twice due to lack of funding. :cheers:
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Posted 04 March 2010 - 01:04 AM

And it's the boogey man of communism, nay-saying economists, and the war on the New Deal that has allowed our infrastructure to fall into such disrepair or obsolescence. Chicago's rail woes are embarrassing, and need far more than 100 million dollars to allay, maybe Warren Buffet can pitch in.
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