Teachers Getting Battered In Bad Economy

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/nyregion/20teachers.html

"The recession seems to have penetrated a profession long seen as recession-proof. Superintendents, education professors and people seeking work say teachers are facing the worst job market since the Great Depression"

"School officials and union leaders estimate than more than 150,000 teachers nationwide could lose their jobs next year"

“I can’t think of anything else I’d rather do,” said Ms. Pankow, 23, as she waited outside the principal’s office at Pelham Memorial last week, among 619 people applying for one English position.