Coast to coast, school budgets are tight and the cuts keep coming. In this difficult economic climate, families, businesses and communities are tightening their belts and schools are no exception. First in the line of fire at school districts is usually professional learning. While most district leaders acknowledge that continuous learning is vital to educators, when cuts are required, funds for such programs are cut quickly and deeply. “No travel” policies are enforced, conference fee reimbursement is denied and program contracts are rescinded. In Florida alone, educators lost 22% of their budgets and that’s just for this year. Next year’s cuts come on top that draconian loss. Creating quality programs for administrators and teachers becomes increasingly difficult. The need for professional learning doesn’t change, but funds for providing it seem to vanish in the current economic climate. How can professional learning leaders meet the diverse needs of their administrators and teachers under such challenging budgetary conditions? It requires extra imagination and determination to find exactly the right products and approaches while staying within the limits of available funding. Etraffic Solutions can help with a line of affordable, high quality on-line learning products for administrators and teachers that can be used flexibly, offer face-to-face follow up and have assessment components built in. For More Information: www.etrafficsolutions.com