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	<title>Lamar Thames &#187; budget cuts</title>
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		<title>Teachers who got recruited, soon get booted.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar Thames</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story was reported in the Orlando Sentinel recently. It is a scenario that is undoubted played out in school districts around the state of Florida.
By Leslie Postal &#124; Sentinel Staff Writer
Courtney Coker graduated from Florida State University in 2006 eager to start work as a music teacher. It wasn&#8217;t hard to turn her passion into a paycheck.
&#8220;It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where is the voice of the parents about budget cuts?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar Thames</dc:creator>
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School districts across the state of Florida are wrestling mightily with the tasks of making draconian cuts in their budgets. School Board members are losing sleep, superintendents are visibly depressed and teachers are all on edge, wondering if they will have jobs in the coming months.
 
But what are the parents saying? In one county, at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deeper cuts in school budgets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar Thames</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proposals to trim the Clay County, Fla., school budget for fiscal year 2009-2010 could cause wholesale disruption of both the educational and extracurricular programs in the district, including athletics.
Superintendent Ben Wortham presented School Board members and a room full of concerned educators a list of proposed cuts that would reduce expenses by more than $27 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lamar Thames&#8217; Talk of the Town column</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar Thames</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[      I am sure that tongues were wagging at water coolers around many schools today, and rightfully so. Cuts are coming. Schools face the prospect of layoffs because of declining enrollments and cutbacks in funding from the state. Several counties have already begun closing underused schools.
      As one superintendent said, &#8220;It may get [...]]]></description>
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