Alarms Sounded As Federal Ed. Cuts Loom

A pair of new reports raise dire warnings about the impact on school districts and federal education programs from the sweeping, across-the-board spending cuts set to hit all federal agencies in early January if Congress doesn't act to head them off. Of those surveyed, nearly 70 percent are betting they'll have to cut professional development,, and 58 percent say they'd expect to cut enrichment, after-school, and other programs. More than half say they anticipate laying off instructional staff and boosting class size. Alyson Klein, Education Week, July 10, 2012