Whitfield schools at breaking point
The students and teachers of Whitfield County are living out a slow-motion disaster.
Ten years of cuts to education funding from the state, now totaling $50 million just for Whitfield County schools, and a recession that has been particularly brutal to our carpet-dependent economy have combined with bad decisions made at both the state and county levels to put both our students and those who teach them at great risk.
Now, Whitfield County schools face another deep hole in its budget, $7,000,000.
Talk of fewer days of instruction for students, added layoffs, more furloughs, fewer programs, and higher class sizes permeate the discussion.