National Endowment of the Arts Funding
Upon years and years, the government has tried to cut back spending on unnecessary programs and reduce the deficit of the Untied States. Recently, this has caused numerous shut downs of the government offices over agreeing on budget between congress and president. Therefore, president Trump has suggested to cut all funding to certain programs like National Endowment of the Arts this will be catastrophic for the education systems, and art programs across the country it funds. The Untied States government should not cut funding for NEA (National Endowment of the Arts) because lose state programs, and make local artist go bankrupt.
First, losing state programs due to cutting funding for the National Endowment
of the Arts. For example, this hits hard at home for me because, this would make the Arkansas Art program dead such as the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock. This could lead to the closing or cutting back the hours of the center. Also, this would affect local artist in the state that receive funding from the NEA, and some artist give up because lack of resources. Thus, this would be disastrous for state of Arkansas and losing its rich art history. Second, losing funding for the National Endowment of the Arts could wound our art education system. Because, of such tight budgets in the education system many times core subject programs receive the bulk of funding while as the fine arts miniature funding. Particularly, in my school Mayflower we had teacher work two jobs try help support the art program since she only received few hundred dollars in the budget for art supplies. The NEA helps fund schools like Mayflower to increase art programs and have art clubs. Lastly, I understand we need to cut back on spending but if cut funding or take the program out entirely will lose valuable education systems, and art programs in state that can not afford to lose them. This would be major blow to the arts in the Untied States and could change our country forever. Every great world power had art programs so why should we try to destroy ours. In fact, this would affect on all parts of life and our history.
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Title I is funding for elementary and secondary schools in the legislation that was passed by Congress on April 9, 1965 (Phyllis McClure, Center of American Progress). Furthermore, this title is to ensure that disadvantaged children in middle to low class neighborhoods have a fair and equal opportunity to receive a high-quality education like other individuals in other districts. Moreover, Title 1 was also to help students reach at least a minimum score of proficiency on state standardized tests (U.S Department of Education). Also, the California Supreme Court in 1971 created the Pupil system to equalize the funding throughout the school districts throughout the state. (Margaret Weston, PPIC Publication). Title 1 funds are still used today in public schools.
School funding is a recurring issue in the modern era. Debates ranging from give schools more money, to get rid of the system in place and reform a new idea have been plaguing the world over the years. “The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, signed in 2009, provided more than $100 billion in education aid to offset budget cuts..” (School Finance). Later, “Congress provided an additional $10 billion in 2010 to avert mass teacher layoffs (Education Week, "Total Recovery Act")” (School Funding). These numbers are just a sample of the struggles in school funding, that is costing a ton of money to keep afloat. “There are many ways schools fund varying from state to state and even school to school. Income taxes, corporate taxes, sales taxes, and other fees provide 48 percent of the elementary and secondary school funds. 44 percent of local districts draw money from local property taxes. The federal government makes up approximately 8 percent of state education budgets. These funds are a dealt out on a per-student basis, and categorically to ensure enough resources for each special program or facility” (School Funding). These funds play a huge role in every student's education, either positive or negative. The three main areas that need to be addressed in the school budget are extracurricular funding, building and equipment maintenance, and last but not least staff funding.
Schools are where we spend half of our lives at, our kids are spending time and energy in these places to become better people in the future. There is absolutely no reason why budget cuts should ever happen in a school. If the country is taking taxes from all of the citizens than they should be conscious to spend that money on things that matter like our children. Making budget cuts takes away programs for kids to excel in and makes a child harder to express himself. Arts are usually the first programs to be cut.
Fine arts gives students a chance to pour their hearts into something beautiful; a chance to be a part of something that is bigger than just themselves. Some schools are facing financial troubles with the current economy, and one of the first programs they consider cutting is fine arts. The removal of fine arts programs would be absolutely devastating to countless members of the community. Many students would lose their favorite class, in some cases the one class that helps them get through the day, and many teachers that truly care fir the students would lose their dream jobs. Fine arts should not be cut from schools; they build confidence, help with the application of other academic concepts, and even help to prepare students for their future work in the business world.
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...making class size smaller. If the school itself cannot afford to educate its students, then the government needs to provide the school with the money to do so. They’re America’s children too.
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