...The Complications within the Public School System California College San Diego ENG 101 Composition The Complications within the Public School System We as humans aren't standardized in our thought process so why are there curriculums? We send our young ones to school to set them up for their future. We invest time into our children whether it is at home or at a place where learning is the main objective. How much are we really getting out of the system if it is all standardized? It seems like the public school system is set up so that they push kids straight through without the proper materials or support they need to succeed. We need to focus on the student as a whole and not as a piece of the percentage. Lack of Funding Lack of funding affects the school public school system in many ways. Without the proper funding, the students do not get the proper books they need in order to participate in class. If a school doesn’t have enough money to buy the necessary amount of books, then kids are now sharing or using books with missing pages. In more well off school districts they don’t have those problems. In many American inner cities, there is a lack of funding in public schools resulting in the use of old, damaged textbooks and some teachers using personal funds to purchase new books. Pennsylvania is one state that has a history with a lack of funding issues. “Pennsylvania’s school districts were, and continue to be, highly dependent on the local wealth of their communities...
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...speaking students learn English and still prosper in schools. However, more recently we have seen hostility towards languages other than English being the language of instruction. After the devastating events of 9/11 and the more recent increase in legal and illegal immigration, many Americans have become weary of anything that appears to be un-American. Fears of foreigners coming over to “their” country and taking over are being exacerbated by the media and various laws have been proposed and enacted to outlaw non-English instruction in American primary and secondary schools. The articles, The Politics of Bilingual Education Expenditures in Urban School Districts and The Proposition: English Only for Educating Children, touch on just how controversial and complex this issue has become. The issue of bilingual education started to gain more attention in 1998 when the state of California proposed an act that would end all bilingual education in that state. This proposed act was called Proposition 227. After the proposition was announced to residents of California, the state government received numerous lawsuits and criticism from people who were in opposition. In the wake of this controversy, many politicians continued to support funding for bilingual education programs. “On the federal level, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, composed of seventeen Latino Democratic members of Congress, continued to support increased funding for bilingual education programs” (Leal and Hess 2001)...
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...The Complex Issue of Public School Funding Ever since the beginning of the United States, the founding fathers and citizens have emphasized the importance on the education of its people, child or adult. Although education exists in this country both publicly and privately, the public school systems have become a powerful resource in many political social issues in this country. Recently, however, many debates have sprung up over issues that deal with the process of funding public education, including: Who is ultimately responsible for funding? How much funding should local, state, and federal governments contribute? How should funds be distributed? Questions such as these have been raised in the United States because of the many problems with education that are prevalent today despite funding. One of the biggest problems is inequality in education powered by property tax values. Numerous research data has shown how the unequal effects of funding from local property taxes has had on the level of education available in the same school districts. This essay will discuss if there are more fair methods to funding public schools than what is presently the norm through local property taxation and also talk about the effects that this kind of funding has on the standard of education that students receive. Each state of the United States manages its own school districts, which includes the administration of funds that pays for these school districts’ costs, with comparatively...
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...the cost of supporting children with mental health issues, the impact that childhood psychiatric disorders have in adulthood and recent evidence on interventions that bear any aspects of cost-effectiveness. The studies showed the costs to the...
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...conditions and behavior issues that can impact a positive or negative effect in the classroom. These behaviors and/or conditions can have a great effect on the process of learning, if the classroom is not managed properly. This paper is going to cover ten of the many negative classroom conditions or behaviors. It is important to know these conditions and behaviors to recognize and correct the problems to organize and manage the classroom. The first thing that will be discussed is overcrowding of the schools. With communities constantly being built and people moving into these small towns the schools but the schools aren’t getting bigger or more teachers it is causing schools to become overcrowded. “The school's student: teacher ratio of 16:1 is higher than the GA state average of 15:1.” (2011, GA Dept. of Educ). This causes distractions to children because when there is that many students in the classroom they tend to try to play and cut up while the teacher is trying to get their things together for the next lesson. To help manage the classroom with this problem you could use letting the students that talk have a job to do but tell them that it is only if they can do it quietly and calmly then swap the jobs out with the classmates throughout the school year. This could help to manage the class. Between doing this and setting the ground rules with the entire class in the first week of school you can still have a good class. School funding is also another issue especially with...
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...recruitment is the largest issue. Also, athletes in public schools start sports a lot later than private schools. Splitting schools and the way you split them has been talked about my tons of experts. Colleges could also be affected by decisions made. Funding is another large issue that comes about in the debate. Comparing enrollment is a very controversial argument as well. The last argument is private schools have to travel very far during tournament time. In all, private schools should not be in the same athletic division as public schools. Recruitment is the process of finding the best individuals academically and athletically to attend your school that may come from another district. This is such a hot topic because private schools can recruit top athletes and top students, and public schools cannot recruit. Public schools have to accept any athlete or student in their district-they have no control over their enrollment, as private schools do. Individuals are attending private schools for sports, not academics. “That’s why I keep telling members we can’t look at it as a public vs. private school issue,” he said. “We have to look at an open enrollment (recruitment) too.” (“Wisconsin Class War”). To solve the recruitment, experts...
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...Nursing Education Program Funding Health Policy Capella University MBA 6275 May 24, 2015 Nursing Education Program Funding Health Policy Health Policy Topic & Problem There is a need to support education programs such as Title VIII funding in FYs 2015 and 2016 (AANP, 2015). It is vital that Congress preserve funding for nurse practitioners educational programs, traineeships, and Nurse Managed Clinics. Congress must reduce federal spending through the Division of Nursing in the Bureau of Health Professions of the Department of Health and Human Services. The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) are advocates for nurse practitioners and patients. The AANP’s legislative team identify critical issues related to licensure, access to care, patient safety, health care reform, and reimbursement. They represent NPs on national committees and in health organization. Thus, the AANP is fighting Congress for sufficient funding for Nurse Education Programs (2015). The writer will introduce a new policy to improve the nursing shortage. Literature Review According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN, 2014), a shortage of nursing school faculty is restricting nursing program enrolments. Nursing schools identified faculty shortages for rejecting qualified applicants. In 2012-2013, U.S. nursing schools rejected almost 80, 000 qualified applicants from undergraduate and graduate nursing programs due to insufficient number of faculty (2014). In addition...
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...RUNNING HEAD: TEAM B – The Foundation Schools Generic Benchmarking Worksheet The Foundation Schools Generic Benchmarking Worksheet Tiesha Brewster, Christopher Jones, Jonathan Moreno, Kicia Robinson University of Phoenix MMPBL 510/Implementing Organizational Initiatives Jennifer Brodie April 11, 2011 Table of Contents Introduction.……………..…………………….…………………………………………. 3 Generic Benchmarking Worksheet.…..….….…………………………………………. 3 Individual Contributions…………………….………………….………………………… ? References..………………………….……………………………………………………. ? The Foundation Schools Generic Benchmarking Worksheet Task A: Problem/Opportunity Statement | Instructions for Task A: In the Response row, write out the problem/opportunity statements for the scenario for each of the team members. | Response to Task A: Tiesha: Foundation Schools are serving over 1,000 students and wanting to increase enrollment by 5% per year. The board has great ideas of adopting a new strategy that uses business development as the model to increase funding sources and revenues. Using the three year strategic program plan the board will include a number of new projects, visions, and plan. The board can continue with the new visions, projects, and plans for the schools by keep raising money, new ideas of raising money and keeping the directors educated with the innovations need to be the leaders in this field. Christopher: Foundation Schools is a non-profit schooling system created to benefit those students...
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...relationship of RTI to Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Assistive Technology (AT). In particular, educators must decide how and when poor academic performance will trigger appropriate technology interventions. The historical development of education has seen a lot of changes though out the last three decades. Changes in key components of education such as teacher qualification, financial funding, curriculum, and assessment have all had huge impacts on education. Teacher qualification has seen a lot of changes in how teachers educate and use curriculum. “Since the 1980s, competing and often contradictory reforms have combined top-down, centralized efforts to improve teaching with efforts to promote decentralization and school-based management (Rowan, 1990) (Borman & Rachuaba 1999) History has had a huge impact on education throughout the years. Education throughout history has faced gender, cultural, and religious issues. The way schools are funded also had a huge impact from history. The control of funding for the school was taken from the community and became a political issue. Politicians realized the importance of education and how important it is in the community. Teachers have to deal with the changes in diversity within the classrooms and changes in technology used to educate. One of the impacts technology will have on education is change in student and teacher roles. With the increasing use of technology in the classroom...
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...disadvantages to the issue, corporate sponsorships are detrimental to the function of public schools. The corporations who traditionally support schools generally aim towards sports for most of their advertising, widening the gap between sports funding and arts funding. The corporations also may not represent the belief system of the schools. Finally, the corporations destroy local businesses. The singular advantage is that schools have funding to educate their students, however this money can be attained with methods that benefit the school rather than take away from the learning of the students. Corporations traditionally advertise in sports areas. Their ads can be found in the gymnasium, football stadium,...
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...Policy Briefing Education Reform Jatin Patel December 10th, 2012 Statement of Issue How can the federal government decrease student loan debt in the country and still provide an education to those whom want to seek it? Every summer millions of college students throughout the nation depend on Federal Financial Aid to help pay for school. In the midst of the election season the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, voiced how he wants to end government funding. Currently, the nation provides direct government funding and Governor Romney is in favor of giving private banks and institutions the responsibility to provide student loans to those in need. Many people are deeply concerned with the issue at hand. Private Institutions vs. Government Disbursement The educational reform is a debate that is widely argued between the two presidential candidates. The current system of how student loans are disbursed in the United States is not perfect, but it is working. Both candidates are in favor of receiving higher education, but differ on how individuals should pay to learn. Throughout the presidential debates both candidates took a firm stand as to where they both stand on the topic of student loans and government funding. College tuition costs are increasing at a rapidly linear rate each and every year. The problem is college students today are taking on the burden of steep student loans and left without a job upon graduation. The average annual cost to attend a four-year...
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...Issues in Multicultural Education: Funding for Cultural Enrichment Activities In America today we have a public school system that has many cultures involved. This can be a very beneficial thing for students but can also be a hindrance to those that are culturally diverse. One thing that can assist in breaking down these potential barriers would be cultural enrichment activities within the schools. Due to a lack of communal education, funding for cultural enrichment activities is little so that students are often deprived of the opportunity to truly experience multiculturalism. Cultural enrichment activities can consist of things like music, dance, food and language. This can happen through clubs, foreign language classes, music classes or events such as field trips or festivals that are centralized on embracing multiculturalism. In order to increase funding for multicultural activities within the schools, certain steps need to be made. First and foremost some causes to this dilemma need to be addressed. The community, especially one in disagreement between embracing a multicultural education (and not), has a large impact in what funds are provided and what they are put towards. Also, the ignorance of the community attributes to the lack of funding for something that is not entirely understood. If parents, teachers and local businesses understood not only the benefit but the need for cultural enrichment within the schools then more attention would be put towards making that...
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...Conclusion : Conclusion Globalization and technological advancements have both managed to change our country’s education system, economy and thus the entire work place. Politics, in theory and practice, affects education: its organization, policies, funding, operations, and outcomes. Testing, which was supposed to be a way of assessing reform, is now being treated as the actual reform. The Political Issues : The Political Issues There are several issues that have manifested themselves in the political arena in regards to our schools and the education being provided. These issues range from who controls and makes the decisions for our schools, to educational reform to teacher certifications, to the trend of free choice of school and funding Again, this is a matter of opinion. You can argue that our educational system favors the better-off of society and disfavors the poor. Our system pours more resources into the schools that need them less and deny them to the schools that need them more. So I would say that the economic factor involved in educational problems is inequality and poverty. Because there are poor and rich (and because they are geographically segregated) we end up having poor schools and rich schools. The poor ones end up with lower standards of education. I would say the political factor is our aversion to "redistribution." We do not like our tax dollars to go to pay for things that will help other people's kids. This is especially true when the...
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...Variations in per pupil expenditures across school districts can affect educational opportunities in large part due to finance issues. The most fundamental piece of public education is money. Equity in educational funding has long been debated in the overall public education allocation system. We know for sure that more public dollars are spent on the education of some school children than others. However, these differences may not be unwarranted. Given the various costs of education and the resources it takes to meet the needs of students across districts, equal dollars may not result in equal opportunities. Expenditure differences are of particular interest as they relate to children in particular categories of concern. This includes minorities, families facing poverty, and other high risk factors. Title I programs are designed to provide extra resources to high-poverty/high risk schools. Large concentrations of low-income students receive supplemental...
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...dramatically different politically. McMath broke protocol by putting blacks into board and commissions that they had not been allowed to serve on before. He worked hard to make thing equal with school funding. He removed the poll tax along with raising the minimum wage. He made great improvements during his one term as governor, but was not supported by the conservative business community. 2) Discuss the political career of Winthrop Rockefeller. Winthrop Rockefeller was first appointed in 1954 as director of the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission. After his fall out with Faubus and the Little Rock crisis Rockefeller decided to begin building his campaign for governor. His first run in 1964 was unsuccessful, but he was able to secure the governor seat in 1966 and held it for two terms. Rockefeller was able to gain large support from the black voters after the Voting Right Act of 1965. The Freedom of Information Act passed during his time is office was a large success that we still benefit from today. 3) Discuss how Pryor and Bumpers changed Arkansas government? Dale Bumpers and David Pryor were progressive and made great strides in moving Arkansas forward during the 1960s and 70s. Bumpers was able to push some of Rockefellers changes through and increased education funding and increase teachers’ salaries. Pryor like Bumpers was met with some limits to how progressive the state was willing to be, but in the end both men were able to benefit the state. Pryor...
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