Teachers Most Helped by Early Stimulus Funding: Report

It was already revealed from numbers from California late last week that the federal stimulus was credited with saving or creating 62,000 jobs in public schools and state universities. At the same time,
Utah reported saving about 2,600 teaching jobs. Missouri reported more than 8,500 school jobs saved or created, Minnesota more than 5,900, while in Michigan, officials stated around 14,000 education jobs have been saved or created.

It's believed that these savings of state teacher jobs have come because the stimulus sent billions of dollars to help state budgets. In those states already hit hard, the money helped officials spare thousands of teacher from layoffs.

There is a Saturday reporting deadline to determine the numbers of those affected positively by the federal stimulus money. The numbers will not include jobs created by Obama’s $288 billion tax cuts or attempt to quantify a "domino effect" due to stimulus spending.

The numbers reported will be for full-time, full-year positions. A part time job will be counted as a fraction of a job. The research comes as unemployment numbers continue to be released showing an ailing economy, as well as a reluctance on the part of companies to hire.