On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:13:47AM -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote:
> Yet, as far as i can see. there isn't one constructive suggestion in > this entire editorial.
I thought it was implied that some or all of the money that was spent on waging war in Iraq should instead be spent on schools and education projects.
While I don't really agree with that, I do think education is quite under-funded. There are a number of other things that could be cut to finance better education. NASA and anti-missile projects come to mind.
As already mentioned by other posters, education funding is mostly handled at the local level. In a large number of places, it is funded by property taxes. Especially during hard economic times, the voters=homeowners do not want to vote to raise their property taxes.
Federal funding to K-12 schools is mostly for things like Head Start and school lunches for underprivileged kids.
Then there are the questions raised by situations like what is currently happening here in Alabama, where the Birmingham school district is faced with closing several schools and losing a number of teachers while having a superintendent who is among the highest paid persons with that job in the SE US area, if not the whole country . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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