It is only a matter of time before the problem of laid off teachers and school closings hit home in Maryland. Next year's tax revenue will be less than this year so the state budget deficit will be much larger than this year. The school budgets will take a hard hit. Especially since the subdivisions will have to begin to share the teachers pension contribution soon and the state will begin to reduce its' overall contributions to county budgets.

We are already losing teachers. Maybe not in the numbers that other states are but certainly there are teachers being non-renewed because of shrinking budgets. We are not getting the same publicity because we are not losing hundreds of people but it is coming. Just keep an ear to the ground.

I am a New York State Certified Teacher looking for work in Maryland. I received my Master of Arts in Teaching: Social Studies Education (7-12) at Binghamton University in the Fall of 2008. Since then I have been applying all over New York. It is an impossible situation to find a job in upstate New York especially with extra experienced teachers in the hunt due to layoffs. Of course if I were Special Ed certified it would be a different story, those jobs are plentiful. However, I want to teach Social Studies and am excited at the possibility of finding employment in Maryland.