A couple of days ago, I wrote an AT blog post on a New York Times story about the Stimulus bill’s failure to stop a “green” company from going through major lay-offs. On Monday The New York Times ran a story on how the Stimulus has “failed to prevent the most extensive school layoffs in several decades.” The Times went on:Children are returning to classrooms across the nation during one of the most tumultuous periods in American education, in which many thousands of teachers and other school workers — no one yet knows how many — were laid off in dozens of states because of plummeting state and local revenue.Since most K-12 funding comes from local sources, individuals have greater power to decide the amount and use of school funds, a fact the Times laments:In Ohio, students in the South-Western City district south of Columbus returned to schools with no sports, cheerleading or band, all cut after residents voted down a property tax...(Read Full Post)