Educational Budget Cuts
“Governor Brewer’s budget makes education a low priority for Arizona by permanently cutting $239 million to school districts, despite a rebounding economy.” (Governors Budget Permanently Cuts nearly $240 Million from Arizona’s Schools). This is an issue that has opposing viewpoints since 2008, during the economic down turn in America. Budget cuts are major problem in our country. Since 2008 the economy has progressively improved with funding for other government programs, but educational funding. The act of cutting out school funding shouldn’t be allowed. Education is the future of America.
Many laws made by both state and federal, have been passed to reduce and change budgets for educational. Many laws are reducing
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educational funding in all states especially Arizona which has one of the lowest budgets in the country. Proposition 301 is a law that was passed to give schools and the educational program a percentage of taxes beginning in 2001.
This law is a monthly law that provides schools with money to run extra programs and other school events. All of the money was supposed to be distributed to all different levels of schools. The tax was at a round a one-twelfth percent of the state taxes but this stopped being funded around 2008. The law stated, “With the passage of Proposition 301 in the November 2000 general election, the Department of Revenue started collecting an additional 0.6% sales tax beginning June 1, 2001”(Proposition 301). This law has been ignored and the schools and schools districts are now suing the Arizona government because they have not been funding schools every month. They are not paying because the lack of funds and this is cutting the Arizona academic budget. The cost to allow students to go to school is one of the lowest in the country. They decrease every year with the amount on how much they spend on the students that attend Arizona schools. Cost of the students consists of sporting events clubs, and other extracurricular activities. “On average, it costs $10,615 to …show more content…
send a kid to public school for a year,” (Lam Thuy Vo). This average is about $3,000 more than Arizona pays to allow students k-12 goes to school. The cost of students to go to school in New York is around $20,000 which allows students more opportunities as well as possibilities in the future. The laws made for education are not being followed which is hurting students possibilities of getting an efficient and well-rounded education. We also continue to cut in the field of education to pay off loans and debts, and students get less and less tools to learn from in the class rooms because financial aid is disappearing. Education is learning and learning is all around us.
We see students learning in movies as well as television shows. We also learn ourselves by experiences. The movie Dangerous Minds is movie about the educational system and an ex-Marine. In the movie LouAnne, “finds herself confronted with a classroom of tough, sullen teenagers, all from lower-class and underprivileged backgrounds, involved in gang warfare and drug pushing, flatly refusing to engage with anything”(Smith). These students are under privileged in many was that do not involve school, but they are not in the best environment to learn. The teacher finds a way to connect to the kids to be able to keep her students engaged in the curriculum that is standard for all students. Not all teachers or educational employees are able to keep their students engaged on the top at hand without technology and other resources at hand. The lack of money because of budget cuts in school districts across the country students are learning less and not getting the supplies and the course they desire. This then leads to the loss of interests in school. School is a healthy place for kids and young adults to learn and be social. But all though students are healthy in the social aspect or most of them anyways, students are not healthy in their everyday diets. Students at high school and even at elementary level have parents that struggle to get by. Students rely on many things that the school supplies such as cheap lunches and classroom
resources. The new health food laws now limit the amount of food that students get to eat and even though they are healthier the students are eating less. The average growing teen needs to eat at least three meals a day and most are not eating breakfast so they are now eating maybe one or two meals a day. School food polices state, “Eating healthy diet helps children stay alert during class, fight off illnesses, and grow into strong healthy adults” (School Food Policies). This is all true, but if you give students a low amount of food and food that does not taste good then the food is pointless to make healthy. Budget cuts are making it so we cannot afford foods that meet standards for health requirements so we simply reduce serving size. Examples of budget cuts are in movies as well as food programs for schools and people are starting to notice. Budget cuts in the field of education is actually not a new event, it is reoccurring event that is taking place right now. The recession started in 2008 and it has been pressuring the government to make budget cuts in education. Education cuts are unacceptable but others see a positive in them as well.
(Bruenig). This is because students from well-off families already enjoy a disproportionately successful future than students from poor families, State budgets could become strained, which might lead to cuts and decreased access to programs that students want to take. Budget cuts may also need to take place, or pulling from other departments to make up for the loss of tuition. These could come from high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools. This could result in many teachers, administrators, and other school district employees losing their jobs due to schools needing to save money.
An outdated education system is the largest problem Michigan faces because it affects not only the present, but also the future of the state. Important issues cannot be solved, nor policies created to remedy them, if the people attempting to solve them are not equipped with the skills and knowledge needed to make informed decisions. The state cannot run itself, let alone the nation as a whole, if its’ people are uneducated. The Constitution, the very basis of our government, relies heavily on the assumption that citizens of the United States are able to make knowledgeable and well-reasoned decisions, the types of which cannot be made when a person does not receive a proper education. This proper education is unattainable when low educational funding occurs. Lowering educational funding leads to lower standardized test scores, lack of resources, and an overall poorer education (Roy 2003). Even with these results educational funding has consistently been put upon the chopping block at all levels of government. Governor Rick Snyder’s budget cuts $470 per pupil for the 2012 fiscal year, while promising only small incentives to be added when re-balancing the budget in 2013 (Resmovits 2012). Snyder’s cuts in education stand in sharp contrast to the budget and policy passed in 1994, by then Governor John Engler. Engler, along with the House and Senate, created Proposal A. This policy increased funding to all levels of education, reduced the large funding gap between poorer and richer school districts, and opened schools of choice. Proposal A was largely effective in its’ objectives, but was unable to maintain the projected budget needed to maintain efficiency due to the recession, and Michigan laws requiring education cuts when school ...
If economists took one thing away from the Great Depression, it should be that losing billions of dollars in a short amount of time causes colossal problems. Everyday in America that is precisely what continues to happen. One day the country will pay for it, but until then, America continues to limp along. The statistics of how much America actually spends could cause even Bill Gates to take a step back. In an article in The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, the situation is summed up quite horrifyingly: “The U.S. Census Bureau just released 2008 figures showing the national average total per-pupil funding from all revenue sources was $12,028” (Izumi). The article goes on to calculate that “if one multiplies $12,028 by the roughly 3.7 million students [almost all living in Texas and California] with illegal-immigrant parents, then one gets a national total funding cost of $44.5...
Although cuts have to happen they don't necessarily need to happen at schools, schools should never be making budget cuts when there's so many other things we can cut. Military equipment for example can be cut we just launched fifty missiles into our “enemies” missiles averaging out to a cost of millions of dollars. There is no reason why schools should be cutting programs just so we have other things like military weapons being funded.
...he surrounding area are required (and thus get more funding from local property taxes), by law and Education Code, to give a portion of their funding to school districts that are “poor” in order to boost the “poor” school districts performance; this idea of taking from the rich and giving to the poor is why it is dubbed the “Robin Hood” plan (Smith, Schools are Reassigned to Robin Hood, 2011). This bill was the first in a long series of proposed bills that was ruled as a constitutional solution for the 1989 Texas Supreme Court case Edgewood v. Kirby, but it is also the reason for the not only the current lawsuit filed by approximately 600 school districts (both wealthy and poor), but also the 2003 school funding lawsuit (Texas School Finance History, n.d.). It has been ruled unconstitional several times throughout its history, yet it still remains in practice today.
Even if the state pays a lot of money, that still doesn’t mean that the schools are well funded. In Hawaii, there is only one school district, and the state pays for nearly all of that district’s funding. Only 2% comes from property tax, and the rest comes out of income tax. But think about the industry in Hawaii- farming and tourism, t...
Reported in 1995, public education expenditures per student are higher in the nation's smallest districts whereas students receive an average fully adjusted expenditure of $4,862 versus $4,216 in the largest district’s 10,000 students and above. (Johnson 4 ) Since 1995, enrollments in the urban public school system have doubled up to 62 percent in the 2010-2011 school year. Still, they received less money. Local governments rely on property taxes as a source of revenue to pay for schools. Yet people in the urban areas pay the higher tax than suburban and wealthy communities, states on the other hand, relies on The Average Daily Attendance (ADA), which calculates state aid to school districts, tends to discriminate against urban school districts with high absentee rates automatically, and excludes 15 percent of its student aid.
School funding for public schools has collectively been cut by $7.6 billion since 2002, forcing schools districts in Georgia to a tipping point. The 2001 recession had a major effect on Georgia’s fiscal condition, which consequently had a major effect on the financing of K-12 education in Georgia. School budgets are used to describe a district’s plan for the upcoming year as pertaining to anticipated revenues and expenditures. Each district’s budget heavily relies on the amount of money they receive from the state’s general fund and since that number has significantly dropped in recent years schools are not able to provide the best education for our students. The budget for public schools in Georgia should be increased because teachers are losing their jobs and schools are being forced to eliminate valuable programs that are instrumental in the education of our youth.
The United States has many conflicts, one of them is funding on Public Education. In fact Public schools are to make every effort to try and help the students with all they can. Some schools have better things to offer to their schools. It depends on the population where the school is located. Do you agree that the public schools should get the funding depending on the population of where they are located? So many things are unfair and we the people do not really have much we can say publicly or even speak up to this situation. Every student should have the same opportunities as someone that goes to a school where tons of money are invested into. Let us focus on tomorrow’s future instead because once we know it the time will come to see these successful students take part of our country and keep us going forward for the better. Despite the fact that funding on public education will not help students succeed academically with the money provided to the schools, every school deserves to get as much money because students will receive more proper education and will be more successful students in the future.
If I had to choose between ADA and ADM, I would chose ADM as it appears you have the advantage of allocating more dollars towards all classifications. It provides a better way to line-item your budget.
...tion assistance for struggling students are in danger of falling behind their peers. Such strategy will, also, hinder students from developing critical skills at an early stage. “State education grants to school districts have also been cut in Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky , Maine, Mississippi, Ohio, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Virginia” (Johnson 2009). Budget deficit may force schools to cut career-based and skilled-based curriculums, thus, forcing schools to teach students how to pass a test that is unrelated to the workforce system. The opposition voted against increase spending, but in reality some spending is necessary as long as it funds effective programs. The American Recovery and Reinvestment act of 2009 was implemented to distribute funding to struggling school systems and increase opportunities for disadvantaged students.
Proper school funding is one of the keys to having a successful school. Americans believe that funding is the biggest problem in public schools. School improvements revolve around funding. There needs to be funding not only in the successful schools but also the schools that aren’t doing as well. In documentary, Waiting for Superman, it talks about how smaller class sizes will help students. Funding is what will help the smaller class sizes. State funding mechanisms are subject to intense political and economic scrutiny (Leonard). Studies have shown that funding is inversely related to accreditation levels (Leonard). School funding needs to be increased, but there must be accountability as well.
Every day a student Newspaper may be getting disbanded because of schools and students are silenced,Freedom of student expression is needed and should be allowed, because without freedom of expression students are pretty much bare of rights. Now people could agree and say “well what about the waste of money and resources that it may be?” This could easily be paired back by pointing out the fact that it allows students to discuss serious issues that could be occurring in the school,It allows Students to teach others about issues that are occurring around the world like terrorism, and it teaches Student's responsibility and Hard work.
Some people argue that parents should have the choice to send their children to whatever school they want, however, if we drain public school dollars to fund private school education we create an unequal system where well off children are better educated and less fortunate children are left without resources or access to a quality education. Inequities in funding and educational resources place poor children in low-performing schools with run-down facilities and ineffective teachers (Giving Point).These inequalities in resources contributes to students getting discouraged and detached, and hurts our whole society. Public education in America was created to equalize opportunity; instead it’s neglecting poor students and limiting their life choices.Arizona’s tax
Schools exist to encourage and fuel these possibilities. Public education is a tool which is used to expand the minds and knowledge of each and every learner. This tool not only provides knowledge but it also enriches the lives of all who take advantage of the opportunity. Public education additionally molds a well-rounded society of learners. Throughout my public school experience I often found myself interested and involved within the classroom. No matter where I went from the cafeteria, to Biology class, I couldn’t avoid learning. To this point I have been a learner and will continue to learn and become a life long learner. I have attained absolute knowledge in subjects such as Calculus and Geography from public schools, and I continue to broaden this learning through college. Learning about how to live and about the very different people around me has also been a skill I have naturally attained by going to school with many different students who look, speak, and act very differently. I have learned to be both a scholar and a gregarious adult. Through public schools, I hope to reflect the skills I have gained and to pass such things on to my students. Public Schools and all their teachings are the vehicle of which I hope to be a part to pass on this knowledge.