Education Secretary Arne Duncan said his eyebrow-raising statement that teachers were already getting “pink slips” because of the sequester was misinterpreted and that he only meant they were getting notices of potential future effects.
Spokesman Jay Carney reiterates the administration's stance that a sequester would directly impact certain aspects of education funding. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan spoke to reporters on Wednesday about the situation.
“What I said is that teachers were getting notices, and in the district we talked about, 110 teachers have gotten notices,” Duncan said Friday after touring the Rolling Elementary School in Takoma Park, Md. “I think there was a misinterpretation that I meant they were being laid off tomorrow.”
But the education secretary still did not indicate whether these notices could be definitively linked to the sequester, or whether they were part of an unrelated warning that affected low-income schools that receive Title I funding.
Duncan made the statement on the pink slips Wednesday when he came to the White House Briefing Room, citing Kanawha County in West Virginia.
“Whether it’s all sequester-related, I don’t know," Duncan said, "but these are teachers who are getting pink slips now."
According to the Washington Post, Kanawha's school superintendent said Thursday night that no teachers have received “pink slips” or been told they would not be coming back in the fall.
He said that because the district “do[es] not know what the cuts are” to Title I, he can’t predict whether teachers will, in fact, lose their jobs.


300 kids will be dropped from Head Start in Maine...but, by golly, those rich folks will keep their tax loopholes! Whew!
http://bangordailynews.com/2013/02/24/politics/white-house-spending-cuts-to-have-broad-negative-impact-on-maine-jobs-and-programs/
As you can see, they are having to back off their "sky is falling" lies...
Hey Blatina is here.
Why not cut the 85 million dollars of Alcoholic drinks that the Senate and House along with the Administration waste in a year.
Let them bring their own bottle. byob.
The white house scare tactics didn't work and the DHS letting the illegals out of jail was a mistake. 1- supervisor resigns and janet napoltano has to apologise and now arte duncan says he misspoke and I awoke to find the sun had risen and the sky didn't fall and turned on tv to see white house backtracking and the president having to clarify he was not a dictator !
and if any of you were honest , lets think back the last 4 years and can you remember when he went to the leaders of both parties and worked out an agreement ?
NO NOT obamacare that was passed by dems only ! how about a budget ? NOT 1 IN 4 YEARS.. he is good at rallying people that support him , what about the 46% of the country who voted AGAINST him ?
With GOP, it is more like Freudian slips.
Amy Obama and his whitehouse staff came up with the sequester in 2011 stop blaming everyone else get your facts together. i have no love for the GOP but have less for the Democrats - Did you know Bill Clinton and the Democrats passed a tax on seniors ssi because they said if you make 33k (thats thousands if you didn't know) they concider that being rich for seniors
They should cut thier damm pays for being so incompetent
I'm sure the Maine legislature is as powerless as Obama to correct this.
Dope.
Amy, if the those three hundred kids are that important to the voters of Maine, the let Maine's state government pick up the tab. Just sayin'
Amy. The sequester was way to small. People are going to have to be responsible for themselves. People are going to have to feed themselves. People are going to have to pay for there own rent, healthcare, and telephones. I as a tax payer am more than tired of all of the freeloaders. Live with it. The rich freeloaders also need to pay there own way.
Amazing....backtracking to cover his tracks.
Guess the next articles will be how Mr. Obama, the DHS, the Dept of Transportation, and other Progressive Cabinet members were "mis-interpreted". Guess these folks did not have their "news conferences" EDITED properly. Time to go after the media again.
This administration has more spin to come. Wait a minute....it started this morning.
Just as I predicted yesterday, this "meeting" with Congressional leaders would last only AN HOUR. Guess where you can find Mr. Obama this afternoon ? Golf course of course.
Don't victimize our teachers who have been doing more with less pay so they have made more tax payments to bail out banks. They are tasked with educating our future leaders in every field.
Maybe if the teachers unions didn't make education so costly and wasteful, the good teachers could get payed more instead of having to piggy-back the bad teachers. Btw, there are no stats proving more funding produces better educated students. A lot of charter schools have less overall funding and produce more educated graduates. No union.
BULLSH*T!!!!!!!
This was meant to be a threat to garner public support to oppose the sequester that Barrack Hussein, Jack Lew and Rob Nabors created, and then tried to put all the blame on Republicans.
Funny isn't it how on Friday, September 28 of last year, officials from the Obama administration informed defense contractors to keep the pink slips to themselves until after the election. But now they are issued and it's misinterpreted.
Arne Duncan is a LIAR just like Barrack Hussein and the rest of his clan.
Head Start = Pre Daycare
Democrats have been fighting school vouchers for inner city kids for decades. Why?
The UK has been discovering horse meat in their food supply and today the U.S. people have been fed "bull@!$%#" by our government.
and in new yorks the missing rats has been solved , bloomberg has been feeding them to the homeless in soup kitchens !
TO: Lil Michelle who wrote:
Ha! The nerve.
Republicans, anxious to call everyone else "liars" while they themselves are incapable of telling the truth.
TO: JobSeeker who wrote:
Why? You mean you're totally clueless? Ha! What a joke!
Because "vouchers" don't cover the full cost of a public school education, don't even come close to paying for any "private school" education and inner city kids are poor.
The only thing "school vouchers" were good for was rich kids' parents getting a rebate on paying for private schools.
Republicans, love to call themselves "geniuses" when they're really dumb as a bag of hammers. And they wonder why people think they're "dumb".
Mike: Honest and great comment. Too bad the American people can not live on bullsh@#t. There has been a consistent and continual supply for 4 1/2 years and there will be an ample supply for 3 1/2 years. Obama increases the supply each time he open his mouth on an issue. Bullsh@#t, lies, and pointing the finger are his strong points. Accepting responsibility and integrity are nowhere to be found.
Probably the 300 dropped from Head Start were over the age of 18 and had transferred from either Illinois or Michigan.
soundssounds likelike moremore demorcratdemocrat//presidentialpresidential doubledouble talktalk.. say enough crap and people who don't follow up will keep lining up at the trough. eat up dumb a$$e$
Next time Obama needs a lie told, I bet he goes back to Rice. Duncan has already started to recant but Rice still sticks to her story.
This is the first president I know of ,who after four years in office ,still hasn't written the first budget. he just keeps drawing up these sequester type of deals and threatens the Republicans with it ,if you don't give me more Taxes, or this is what you get. This time it has backfired, Obama and his Democrat friends drew this up , so let them live with it . This is the only way to stop Obama;s out of control spending. The Media has also done a good job of making the public believe that it's the Republicans fault and that these Tax loopholes their talking about , are only for the rich. People these loopholes are for the Middle class too.
amy -- i have asked before if you would be kind enough to describe the tax loopholes that are only for the rich. could you do that today?
billybob:
Inasmuch as your posts are typically worthless, it is possible that Amy B. has you on ignore. So, I'll start with "carried interest".
As I understand it, the chief loophole President Obama wants to close, as David says, is the tax break given for "carried interest."
Hedge fund managers get to pay a lower tax rate on their income from collecting a portion of the investor's profits because the tax code considers it a return on investment. But it's not really a return, it's income from the manager's labor, and should be taxed at that rate.
Closing that tax loophole would save country 21 billion over the next decade.
http://thinkprogress.org/tag/tax-loopholes/
Democrats say i'm rich
thanks amy. i have david on ignore so i do not see his comments.
that is a good one to eliminate. it is a small one but we must start somewhere. but at $2B a year it does not really do very much. are there more of these rich-only deductions or loopholes? though not stated i wonder if you are blaming republicans for all of these loopholes? i hold both parties equally accountable.
our biggest challenge, in my opinion, is finding politicians on both sides with enough integrity to clean up the tax code.
it is this behavior: "Tucked inside the last-minute fiscal cliff package were more than a dozen tax loopholes, many of which will benefit Wall Street financial firms and some of the nation's biggest corporations. These breaks will cost billions of dollars in the coming year, underscoring the lobbying power of corporate interests."
i wonder why our government continues giving these special interest these opportunities. is it just financial quid pro quo? - donate to my campaign and i will take care of you?
Well fancy that. billybob asks questions and expects answers, but does not extend the same treatment to others who ask questions of him. It's not only that he can't answer the tough questions, it's that he takes the easiest option. He just closes his eyes.
David Walker,
Maybe Billybob didn't see your comment since he has you on ignore. If you have a question, run it through Amy, apparently they can communicate.
KCBones:
Wouldn't matter if I ran the questions through god, billybob can't answer the questions I ask. He slings crap, I call him on it. His excuse for not answering is the "ignore" dodge. Click on my name and go check my questions to him yesterday. You'll see he has no idea what he's talking about.
You had to have noticed, I'm not afraid to answer his questions.
TO: ls-1543107 who wrote:
No, Democrats know you're faking it.
There are so many areas of waste that Obama can cut, but he would prefer to hurt kids, the environment, and the DOD to make political points.
You are misinformed.
The President put out a Budget proposal for 2013 called Cuts, Consolidations and Savings. It's loaded with ways to cut waste.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2013/assets/ccs.pdf
amy -- yes, obama did send this to congress where not a single senator or representative voted for it so i do not know if he was being disingenuous or if his budget team has a fundamental lack of understanding of what a budget looks like.
I call BS to all of this, All of these losers that made statements about how bad its going to be have to make good or look stuipd. I guess looking stupid is the course of action on this topic.
TO: John, Tucson, AZ who wrote:
The wackos are losing it.
Republicans have been complaining about the poor "sucking on the government teet" for years, now all of the sudden it's Obama who wants to "hurt kids".
I guess there's no point in reminding you, again, why Republicans sent the Teagaggers to Washington.
Dumb just can't stop getting dumber.
TO: SolarIstheWay who wrote:
Nobody ever accused Republicans of being "right" about anything.
i was an elementary school teacher back in the '70s. as the end of my first year was approaching i got a notice that i may be laid off. i immediately went to the principal's office to see what i had done and what i could do to save my job.
he told me to relax. every teacher in the district gets this notice every year because of the union contract and the administration's fear of being sued by the union.
duncan knows this but could not restrain himself -- just like all of the other cabinet secretaries and the president - from declaring that the sky is falling.
More lies from the white house.....
This administration tells so many lies they cannot separate lies from truth any more. They just tell the lies and when someone says something they have to backtrack.
Perceived reality is reality. The Big Lie works with an under-informed or apathetic populace. Why is Obama campaigning for 100 days now? Didn't we just have an election? On the front page of this rag "Obama - 'I am not a dictator'" Kind of reminds you of Tricky Dick, doesn't it (I am not a crook)? And I voted for Nixon, but denial will bite you in the rear, as Obama and the Democrats will find out, hopefully in time to save our country.
steve -- wouldn't it be entertaining to see saturday night live do a parody of obama and his i am not a dictator with nixon at his side holding his victory pose?
Misinterpretated? Liar, liar, pants on fire.
Is that a word?
Like the Pres. says, this is not catastrophic, we will get through this, as we are resilient. Right! You can't have two sides confer over something when one side is too dumb to even think straight, right McConnell? Non thinking idiots like you and the Bonehead should be held in prison for treason against the American people!
Yes, this will effect teachers, and kids all over this once great country! Once great, befor the TeaPottie people took over the GOP!!!
And who do we send with them for letting the "soon to be deported" out of jail?
Dfrom Spencer said,
"Non thinking idiots like you and the Bonehead should be held in prison for treason against the American people!"
So republicans are the only "non thinking idiots"... dude, after a comment like that you should look in the mirror!! You are the one who is a "non thinking idiot" if you think this is a republican only issue!!
And if the republicans are to blame for everything... then explain this brainaic...
GAO Report: Obamacare Adds $6.2 Trillion to Long-Term Deficit
By Andrew Stiles
Obamacare will increase the long-term federal deficit by $6.2 trillion, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released today.
Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), who requested the report, revealed the findings this morning at a Senate Budget Committee hearing. The report, he said, "confirms everything critics and Republicans were saying about the faults of this bill," and "dramatically proves that the promises made assuring the nation that the largest new entitlement program in history would not add one dime to the deficit were false."
President Obama and other Democrats attempted to win support for the health-care bill by touting it as a fiscally responsible enterprise. "I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits — either now or in the future," Obama told a joint-session of Congress in September 2009. "I will not sign it if it adds one dime to the deficit, now or in the future, period."
The new report exposes the "lack of honesty" surrounding such claims, Sessions argued. "This is how a country goes broke," he said.
Now tell me the republicans had anything to do with this... brainaic
The real problem is you hate the republicans soooo much you can't see that your own party is to blame just as much as the republicans, but you can't see the trees because of the forest either can you??
Thanks for proving you are just another low information voter!!
Pssst, ole DfromSpencer doesn't let a little thing like the facts get in the way of a good bashing of Republicans.
@ Maxx
I would have figured that the holders of the keys to happiness, you know (feisty, Seeking, Amy, etc.) aren't on here already bashing you to put you in your place. LOL
The bus station was busy last night with the sailors on leave!
The team will be here when the sober up. Swallowing that much
protein with cheap wine will have them in a bitter mood.
Dumb cuts??? It was the Presidents plan. We just raised taxes and today the report comes out that personal income is down. How can anyone beleive this " Crisis President" . He is all campaigning. Dem's please wake up to his rectoric. The sky isn't falling but our childrens debt is rising. And you still think it is the rich? Please stop giving this President a pass? Please force him to get a budget!!! Any good president can work with congress. Clinton and Bush did. It has been 4 years and we still have Uncertainty.
Bondi,Any good P.O.T.U.S. can work with Congress. Only if congress is willing to work. You people who hired the obstructionist T.P. are to blame for this non-working performance of our congress.
Your part of Sambo's debt is 50,000.00 and change. Same as every
other man, woman and child here. How dare you ask him for a
1% reduction in the PROJECTED rate of increase!
If your family was earning 50,000.00 a year could you cut
it to 49,500.00?
Perhaps the education secretary should be honest..., he had the hand of the Administration up his rectum moving his lips...
So you say people are getting their pink slips and somebody misinterprets that. No can do Arne what you said is what you said. Almost as revealing as Obama saying he's not a dictator. Freudian slip you think? Me do.
every proposed cut has a "chicken little effect." ask anyone if there is what they consider to be waste in government. I would bet the answer is yes. So let's start with the Department of Education. What is the ration of teachers (the front line) to administrators. Administration has grown exponentially. Would not a reasonable cut start there if, indeed, the Departments of Education were really concerned about kids? No child left behind! This has taken the initiative from teachers and now we have an educational system geared toward standardized tests. If this were gone, how much oversight would also be gone? the DOE's have been a failure as seen by where we rank in the world on the basic math and sciences. My point in all of this is government does not cut what is unnecessary in lieu of "throwing the gold watch" on the table and crying wolf. Perhaps a sequestration and an angry public on what is being cut rather than what should be cut will get us back on the right track.
Agree! Also, lets fire the 167,000 new people put on the Federal payroll since Obummer came into office. What justification could there be for that kind of hiring in a major recession except to pay back his political favors? There is more than enough money to run an efficient Government here. We need to get out the axe and STOP this stupid spending.
Our states teachers are not funded by the U.S. government. Perhaps if this administration of misfits hadn't promised $60 million in aid to the Syrian rebels they could have used that money for the loss of these teachers pay, if it EVEN exists. Then Mr. Obama calls the sequester nonsense "dumb cuts"....hmmmmm....well then why did YOU propose them to begin with. Oh well, four more years.
There is something called IDEA which is federal money for special education. The Federal government says you have to educate ALL special education children. The sad thing is it does not fund it completely. When those funds stop coming schools won't be able to pay the tab for the private special eucation schools. Many schools have in house programs but the federal money doesn't cover all of it. Yes teachers will be given pink slips if the district can't pay. Not all your money comes from the state or your local real estate taxes.
Here is an idea... have the teachers all work 12 months like the rest of us and extend school for 11 months instead of having kids take off all Summer long to be bored. That way the teachers can also teach special needs kids. Classes could very well be staggered to fit everyone's needs. Time to end the free rides.
Thank God the Feds will be paying for the teachers and that will stop
coming out of my state and local tax's
Just another lying Odumbo sycophant.
I was misinterpreted...it is Bush's fault! I don't know if these pink slips have anything to do with sequestration (last night he admitted there were only 5 pink slips and they were handed out for other offenses - with the NEA on their side, the "offenses" must have been egregious!) More White House hyperbole.
Bush's..Republitards...Tea Party's...Obama's fault!It is $85 Billion, with a "B", not $85 million.
I guess it was all my fault that I correctly heard and accurately understood his lie.
My grandfather was born in Kanawha County, West Virginia
Arne Duncan: Take a page from the republican playbook and just deny saying anything, even if it's on video tape and they play right in front of your eyes. First say it wasn't you, then deny saying it even if it was you. They do it all the time, just watch FOX news as proof. P.S. Howard Stern, Babba Booey!!!!!!
Hmnnn , kind of like Obummer denying the sequester was his idea in the first place ... which it was!
LL Cool A: There is a misspelled word in your playbook statement unless Obama has changed his name to republican.
Secretary of Education: Why is California eliminating the requirement of algebra for eight graders? I know it's a local issue, but I still like to know what you think about it. I see it as another effort by the left to dumb down liberals, if that's possible.
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_22599953/bob-huff-elimination-algebra-requirement-wrong-direction-california
Oh yea, when the comment has been so unfortunately "misinterpreted" (read recognized as unadulterated bull "stool") let us restate it in a "better light" (read say something totally different, that isn't even related to the original subject). Honestly the Administration and all the comedians in the cabinet have been putting on a virtual vaudeville act, running around like Chicken Little screaming "the Sky is Falling, the Sky is Falling". It's been quite hilarious. The truth is, we NEED TO CUT OUR CRUSHING DEBT, and there is no way to do it without pain. I ask you, who should feel that pain? Our generation(s), who voted for the total idiots that created it (past and present), or our grandchildren and great grandchildren, who are innocent of that stupidity.
Oh, and I forgot to mention it.
Jay Carney, you have absolutely no credibility left . . . NONE . . . , ZIP . . . ZERO. You have become the world's most obvious, and oblivious "talking head". When you open your mouth, prerecorded Kool-Aid gushes forth like Niagara Falls!
It's a hard choice for Obama to make, 110 teachers keeping their jobs or golfing with tiger? Golfing with Tiger it is. Plan wisely!
And slick willy's "I did not have sex with that woman."
Is Obama a great teacher or intimidator?? He has either taught or intimidated his department heads that are now a group of liars like himself. "Apple does not fall far from the tree!!!! Misinterpreted is BS. It was a bald face lie attempting to pressure Republicans to cancel the reductions in spending (not cuts) that were his idea. Obama should refer to tapes of his previous statements to remember what he said or did.
Tell a lie and if it doesn't work say you were misunderstood.
The administration mantra.
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Tom2- My exact thoughts.