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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4272/A_National_and_COVID.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='US Schools Cut Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs' data-article-id='4807'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='15354'>A Labor Department economist told Reuters that nearly 470,000 public school employees lost their jobs nationally in April alone.</span> <span data-start-time='15354' data-end-time='31521'>That is more than the nearly 300,000 total during the 2008 Great Recession, based on information from a 2014 Russell Sage Foundation paper.</span> <span data-start-time='31521' data-end-time='42750'>The job losses at public K-12 schools are bigger and coming faster than experts predicted.</span> <span data-start-time='42750' data-end-time='48958'>Michael Griffith is a researcher at the Learning Policy Institute.</span> <span data-start-time='48958' data-end-time='55208'> He said, we&rsquo;re looking at record cuts in teaching positions.</span> <span data-start-time='55208' data-end-time='69500'>School officials, public officials and teaching experts have warned the job losses will hurt the education of a generation of American students.</span> <span data-start-time='80250' data-end-time='80250'> It also could slow down the U.S. economic recovery since public schools are big employers in the country.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' 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number of people are on a diet</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4272/a_speedway_in_arkansas.wav'><span>a speedway in Arkansas</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4272/the_large_economic_decline_that_occurred_in_2008.wav'><span>the large economic decline that occurred in 2008</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4272/the_name_of_a_large_breed_of_dog.wav'><span>the name of a large breed of dog</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=15261 data-hint-location='0' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4272/how_many_public_school_employees_lost_their_jobs_in_april.wav'>How many public school employees lost their jobs in April?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='470,000 '><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4272/100000.wav'><span>100,000</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4272/470000_.wav'><span>470,000 </span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4272/650000.wav'><span>650,000</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4272/270000.wav'><span>270,000</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=15262 data-hint-location='80250' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4272/public_school_job_losses_could_slow_down__blank_.wav'>Public school job losses could slow down <span class='blank'>economic recovery</span>.</div><div class='choices' 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