CURMUDGUCATION: The Other Unfunded Mandates

Talk to teachers– or former teachers– across the country, and you hear similar complaints. An increase of job responsibilities, without the necessary time or resources to complete them. When we talk about unfunded mandates, we usually mean some program for which the government has said, “You must do this, but we will not give you any money to pay for it.” But it is another kind of unfunded mandate when a school says to a teacher, “You are being given new tasks to complete, but we expect you to donate the time to do them on your own.”

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