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President Obama has won his summer-long battle for a bill that will funnel to states $10 billion to save teachers’ jobs. The House of Representatives returned early from its summer recess yesterday to pass the measure, which totals $26 billion and also includes money for other public workers, and President Obama signed it almost immediately.

It was revived from the dead when the money to pay for it was found elsewhere, including, to some critics’ horror, by cutting back on food stamps for poor families.

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$10 billion teacher jobs bill passes, but the controversy isn’t over

by Sarah Garland, The Hechinger Report
August 11, 2010

<h1>$10 billion teacher jobs bill passes, but the controversy isn’t over</h1> <p class="byline">by Sarah Garland, The Hechinger Report <br />August 11, 2010</p> <p>President Obama has won his summer-long battle for a bill that will funnel to states $10 billion to save teachers’ jobs. The House of Representatives returned early from its summer recess yesterday to pass the measure, which totals $26 billion and also includes money for other public workers, and President Obama signed it almost immediately.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignright is-resized"><a href="https://i1.wp.com/hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/800px-Colossos_Heide_Park_Soltau_Germany.jpg?ssl=1"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/800px-Colossos_Heide_Park_Soltau_Germany.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1" alt="teacher jobs bill" class="wp-image-3990" title="Rollercoaster" height="200" width="300" /></a></figure> </div> <p> It was revived from the dead when the money to pay for it was found elsewhere, including, to some critics’ horror, by cutting back on food stamps for poor families.</p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://hechingerreport.org/10-billion-teacher-jobs-bill-passes-but-the-controversy-isnt-over/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://hechingerreport.org&quot;&gt;The Hechinger Report&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-favicon.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://hechingerreport.org/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=3989&amp;amp;ga4=G-03KPHXDF3H&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://hechingerreport.org/10-billion-teacher-jobs-bill-passes-but-the-controversy-isnt-over/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hechingerreport.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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