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Friday, October 15, 2010

Holy Toledo! Teacher in Oval Office when Obama signed Education Stimulus -- laid off

TPS teacher who watched Obama sign bill is laid off


Board not using $7.6M share to rehire workers

By CHRISTOPHER D. KIRKPATRICK
BLADE STAFF WRITER

As Toledo Public Schools teacher Amanda VanNess stood in the Oval Office and watched President Obama sign an education stimulus bill, she already knew she'd lost her teaching job back home to budget cuts and low seniority.

The $26 billion stimulus bill, designed to save 160,000 teacher and other government jobs across the nation, couldn't save her position at Pickett Elementary.



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