How much more money are we investing into our children's education?
2007-02-06 05:15:09 · 6 answers · asked by hichefheidi 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I am smart enough to know that you didn't answer the question. And I am smart enough to know what your answer REALLY is.
2007-02-06 05:20:18 · update #1
Actually the NCLB act has never been fully funded.
2007-02-06 05:18:01 · answer #1 · answered by meathookcook 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
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It looks like we are definitely in agreement on this one. For the government fiscal year of 2006, FY06, which ended September 30, 2006, $13.3 billion was added to the budget for NCLB. For FY07 $24.4 billion was budgeted for NCLB, but more than likely, only about $13.5 billion will actually be spent on NCLB.
NCLB is nothing more than a empty "show pony" for the Bush Administration, which allows it to claim they are helping improve the education of children, but in the end it is nothing but an unjustified expansion of the Federal Government.
The main thrust of NCLB is to help improve the education of minority and poor students, but the twisted reward system it mandates just ensures the children it is designed to help receive an even worse education.
The Baltimore Sun documented several failing of NCLB, where schools ensured that students were in attendance at the beginning of each school year to receive additional per pupil revenue, but could careless if these students attended classes after their registrations were fully documented. The Maryland State Assessment exam for reading and math that is required by NCLB has actually reduced the effectiveness of education in the Baltimore intercity, the very children NCLB is suppose to help. Now teachers teach nearly nothing, but MSA related material for most of the school year to ensure their schools' test scores do not fall below the minimum acceptable level the state of Maryland had to establish to comply with NCLB.
In the ultimate of art imitating life, this past fall, this fact was accurately depicted as a subplot on HBO's The Wire. A crime drama that takes place in the Baltimore intercity.
2007-02-06 16:40:46 · answer #2 · answered by TheMayor 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
On the federal level, nothing at all that I know of. On the other hand, at the local levels, our school taxes have gone up about $700 dollars a year since the second year Bush took office. His new budget, minus the war 'extras' cuts 142 government programs while maintaining the tax cuts for the rich. I truly wonder what his thinking is, and I hope Congress does its job and keeps a close eye on whats going on and how our money is being spent.
2007-02-06 13:35:14 · answer #3 · answered by justa 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've heard it was increased a lot just to implement NCLB, but the thing is... I've heard about every teacher I know complain about how it's not really an effective program...
so it would seem to me that we've greatly increased spending to fund a relatively ineffective program...
so... answer to your first question... a lot...
answer to your second question... not so much, since it's not really helping our children's education...
2007-02-06 13:19:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Bush touts his NCLB - but at the same time cuts aid to sick children. What a worthless piece of garbage.
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2007-02-06 13:21:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
NCLB was left underfunded by Bush. NCLB was never fully funded, it got cut.
2007-02-06 13:20:54 · answer #6 · answered by Timothy M 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋