It must be noted that I started documenting these education shutdowns at the beginning of 2014, in that year I posted the reports biannually (every six months). In 2015 education cutbacks ramped up and I posted quarterly (every three months). For the past eight months of 2016 there have been so many education cutbacks that I’ve posted a report every month!
Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): A phrase created by me to describe a phenomenon taking place across the United States, affecting both privately and publicly funded schools, from Kindergarten all the way through University levels.
Incomplete list of publicly announced education related layoffs & school shutdowns, September 2016:
California: Reports of unknown rash affecting 40 teachers and children at Lake Forest Elementary, in Orange County. Some victims say the rash looks and feels like “bug bites”. Orange County health administrators ruled out vectors. A local TV station showed video of the lawn at the school with Do Not Cross ‘tape’ around it, school admin refused to comment but parents say many of the affected students were playing on the lawn (chemical contamination?).
Idaho: State education administrators and ‘lawmakers’ debating new ways to divy out dwindling taxpayer funding for schools, some plans would see as much as $131-million USD cut from school funding! School district administrators also told ‘lawmakers’ that ObamaCare mandated employee health insurance is sucking up more and more taxpayer funding. Blue Cross of Idaho provides the insurance for Idaho teachers and jacked up their rates by 16.5% in 2015. One plan for handling ObamaCare insurance for Idaho teachers could actually cost taxpayers an additional $17-million! Budget policy analyst Paul Headlee warned “This is a This is a particularly complex and potentially expensive endeavor, endeavor.”
Illinois: In Mount Carmel, District 348 shutting down South Elementary at the end of their school year. It’s blamed on building repair costs and years of tax funding cuts due to years of Disappearing Students Syndrome. In Obama’s Failed Homie State of Chicago, after years of slowly declining enrollments Chicago Public Schools reported a sudden 3.5% drop in enrollments, compared to last school year. Administrators are now warning of even more layoffs.
Indiana: ITT Tech now officially bankrupt dead after the U.S. Department of Education banned the for-profit national school from accepting new students who rely on federal education loans or grants, because it couldn’t prove graduates were getting good paying jobs. 8-thousand jobs gone, at least 35-thousand students screwed! I find it par-for-the-course (in this age of Dumbing Down) that many former ITT students say they were unaware of the school’s problems, despite at least two months of news reports!
Michigan: In Detroit, the Big Bookstore near Wayne State University shutting down, due to the owner getting an incredible offer for the land from a property developer.
Minnesota: Blaine based Regency Beauty Institute suddenly shutdown all 79 campuses across the country. Administrators say there is a conspiracy to Dumb Down the U.S. : “…declining numbers of cosmetology students nationwide, a negative characterization of for-profit education by regulators and politicians that continues to worsen and, in light of these factors, an inability to obtain continued financing…. ..The environment is simply not one that allows us to remain open.”
New York: God powerless to stop ‘his’ College of Saint Rose from possibly eliminating 23 jobs due to a $9-million shortfall, despite boasting of a record number of enrollments this school year! It should be noted that the College of Saint Rose is deeply involved/connected with U.S. attorneys and court judges, unAmerican corporate America and the main stream news media.
North Dakota: North Dakota State University eliminating 95 jobs through attrition, buyouts, and vacant positions will not be filled. Remaining employees will have their hours reduced. Administrators say they must cut their 2017-19 budget by $15.7-million USD!
Oregon: In Northeast Portland, pissed-off parents say the now dead Tiny Revolution Montessori failed to refund their money after shutting down without warning on 04 September. What’s more interesting is that according to court documents the school owners knew they would be shutting down back in July!
Pennsylvania: DuBois Business College shutting down all four campuses due to problems with the Accrediting Council of Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS).
Texas: In Bryan, after 30 years of supplying educators Jacque’s Toys and Books shutting down after Halloween.
Wyoming: It’s been revealed (nationally) that the shutdown of Midwest School, back in May, was caused by the oil industry. To show you how much the oil industry controls The Cowboy State an oil well ‘donkey pump’ was planted on one end of the school’s football-track field! The school had to shutdown because gas from the pumping of the well filled the only school for the town of Midwest!