WikiEducator, a flagship initiative of the OER Foundation, administers the Learning4Content project - the world's largest training project to provide free wiki-skills' courses for the collaborative development of OER tothousandsofeducators from 140 different countries.
Once these cuts take effect, thousandsof teachers and educators will be laid off, and tens ofthousandsof parents will have to scramble to find child care for their kids.
That's why we invested in schools and prevented layoffs of hundreds ofthousandsof teachers and public school workers, including thousandsofeducators in this state -- because we know we will not be able to compete in new industries unless we've got workers ready to fill jobs in those industries.
To meet this goal, the Recovery Act included the largest investment in education in history while preventing hundreds ofthousandsofeducators from being fired because of state budget shortfalls.