What a sham.

It started with a deceptive state budget that spends more over than it did last year, raises tax by $1b. and still manages to spend less on K-12 educations, the supposed top priority of lawmakers. But because that amount is still more than the fake, never real doomsday scenario floated to make the case for additional revenue, CMS auto-magically has $20m. more from the state than it did a few weeks ago. And because of that little twist, CMS is trying to hire back roughly half the 664 teachers it let go a couple weeks back.

And guess what? Some of those teachers went and got jobs elsewhere, meaning CMS is once again confronted with a teacher squeeze and will likely not fill the slots it created when it fired its teachers.

The extent of the mismanagement is, well, is standard CMS. This is precisely why you do not cut your teaching staff and instead layoff high-priced administrators, folks who are not going to be able to easily find new six-figure jobs one county over. Once the political gamesmanship is over and you have successfully helped your lobbyists in Raleigh push through a tax hike “for the children,” you can go back and hire those numbskulls.