Feeling fiscal pinch: State educators facing major hit

Teachers and classroom aides focused on helping students learn to read and catch up with their peers could lose their jobs, along with hundreds of workers in a federally funded preschool program.

If wide-reaching federal spending cuts take effect later this week, education in Indiana would take a big hit, with millions in cuts, according to a White House report.

Friday is the first day that the federal spending cuts, also known as the sequester, will go into effect, unless Congress and the president can come up with an alternative before then. The White House has issued a state-by-state report detailing the impacts of the cuts, which says that Indiana will lose jobs for teachers and resources for students and funding for clean air and water and would have to make cuts in military spending.

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