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 11 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.
As of 3rd Quarter 2016: $1.26-trillion in total U.S. student loan debt, entrapping 44.2-million people for the next 20 to 30 years (you can’t declare bankruptcy against government loans)!
Incomplete list of publicly announced education related layoffs & school shutdowns, November 2016:
Alabama: In Mobile, after only 13 months the taxpayer-investor subsidized (at least $70-million USD to build) GulfQuest Maritime Museum shutting down due to lack of paying customers. Last month the mayor of Mobile revealed that the museum was behind on utility payments by $400-thousand!
California: In Los Angeles the Bienvenidos Children Center laying off 13 people right after Xmas.
Colorado: In Denver shock as Colorado Heights University joins the growing list of higher education establishments shutting down for good, before next school year. Administrators blame DSS and problems maintaining its accreditation.
Idaho: Once again the ‘christian’ Right to Work (you over) republican leaders are realizing too late that their education policies suck. Last month I told you how the number of Idaho high school grads going on to college continues to crash-n-burn, now a new Student Loan Report survey shows as much as 82% of Idahoans who did “Go-On” and graduate from college (both public and private) are now saddled with debt. To address the issues of crashing college enrollment (of Idahoans) and skyrocketing indebtedness Idaho ‘lawmakers’ have approved a $3-thousand USD grant to help individual Idahoans pay for college (too late for me and my adult children)! The federal government is helping by shelling out $1.4-million to expand Idaho’s apprenticeships in healthcare, Info-Tech, manufacturing and energy. A Fort Hall Elementary principal admitted to stealing more than $9-thousand from the Blackfoot School District. She was sentenced to five years probation and 3-hundred hours of community work, and supposedly has already paid back the money. Combative state Superintendent of Public Instruction Sherri Ybarra now swears she will comply with federal Department of Education rules by submitting the Every Student Succeeds Act plan by March 2017. The announcement came after Ybarra failed to met her own self imposed ESSA filing deadline!
Kansas: Without warning to students Heritage College suddenly shutdown all ten campuses, students found out when they showed up for classes and found the doors locked! A note on the doors said the school was bankrupt dead, students are frantic: “I don’t know where I’m going, I don’t know what’s going on with my loans, I don’t know what to do next!”-Stephanie Hermrack
Kentucky: In Lexington, The Morris Book Shop shutting down in January 2017, after nine years: “I’m sorry to have to report that our search for a buyer has come to an end………declining sales over the past two years have erased all realistic hope of a rebound.”– Wyn Morris, owner
Maryland: In Towson, after nine years Ukazoo Books can’t renew their lease and will shutdown before Xmas. Ukazoo proprietors tried to buy a building of their own, but the deal fell through.
Missouri: Saint Louis Public Schools warns it must shutdown two schools by fall 2017 due to ongoing DSS. God can’t stop ‘his’ Our Lady of Sorrows and Saint James schools from shutting down due to The Rapture (I mean massive DSS), local news reports say the Saint Louis Archdiocese has suffered a net loss of 12-thousand 5-hundred students over the past decade (that sounds like The Rapture numbers to me)! The Lincoln University imposed a hiring freeze and will eliminate jobs by April 2017, due to the gov’na withholding $1-million USD in taxpayer funding. Administrators say that without that money they could shutdown after seven months.
New Jersey: Money problems forcing County College of Morris to shutdown its Morristown campus right after Xmas, as it consolidates operations.
New Mexico: San Juan College warning of layoffs due to being forced to cut $1.14-million USD from its budget in December, describing it as a “financial exigency” (urgent demand) caused by a sudden taxpayer funding cut of 5%: “We have reached the point where we must reduce our workforce as our budgetary resources in this fiscal year, and next, will not support all of the positions on our organizational chart.”– Toni Pendergrass, college president
New York: Dowling College chapter 11 bankrupt dead and selling off its properties. Dowling suddenly shutdown in August affecting at least 450 employees and 1-thousand 7-hundred students! In NYC, That Which Cannot be Named refuses to stop ‘its’ Yeshiva University from shutting down Info-Tech services at four locations across The Empire State, at least 52 jobs “affected” by February 2017. SUNY Plattsburgh warning of layoffs as part of efforts to save $1.4-million USD. Clinton Community College eliminating jobs after losing 221 students over the past year. That Which Cannot be Named powerless to stop Yeshiva University from shutting down their Israel Henry Beren Campus Technology Services Division a week before Xmas.
North Dakota: In Fargo,two grade school teachers were praised for attending the biased Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, admittedly for extensive brainwashing: “In the face of rising anti-semitism and Holocaust denial, educating students about this history is becoming increasingly urgent.”-Peter Fredlake, museum director of teacher education and special programs
Ohio: Dayton Public Schools warned 77 employees of layoffs due to ongoing DSS. Rural Maplewood Schools warning of school shutdowns in 2017 due to never ending DSS; a net loss of 447 students since 2003!
Oregon: Southern Oregon Historical Society warns that paid employees will be laid off right after Xmas, due to cash strapped taxpayers voting down (overwhelmingly, 65% to 35%) a new funding proposal.
Pennsylvania: McCann School of Business and Technology suddenly stopped accepting new students, and will shutdown as soon as enrolled students are ‘taken care of’. The shutdown is blamed on DSS.
Rhode Island: Nathaniel Hilger of the National Bureau of Economic Research discovered that higher education does not equate to earning more money. He discovered this while researching the myth that Asian Americans earn more money because of their education level. That myth has been going around since the 1960s, and Hilger found it was a lie. The true reason was declining discrimination against Asians: “Asians used to be paid like blacks. But between 1940 and 1970, they started to get paid like whites.”
South Dakota: In Aberdeen, after two years education supply store Teacher’s Pet shutting down right after Xmas. The owner blames an economy that has not recovered, with the final straw being ObamaCare insurance rates for employees.
Tennessee: In Nashville, after 20 years BookmanBookwoman shutdown its brick-n-mortar store, now selling on the internet only.
Wisconsin: In Madison, after 27 years of supposedly being ‘progressive’ Rainbow Bookstore co-op shutting down due to crashing enrollment at University of Wisconsin Madison: “Rainbow’s been struggling for a number of years. I think we’ve had a couple different challenges that we’ve been trying to address simultaneously. Our main source of revenue, which was selling textbooks that supported the rest of the bookstore, is vanishing.”-Debbie Rasmussen, volunteer (slave?) employee
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