Imagine you just walked in to have your hair cut. You sit in the seat as the stylist works miracles with your hair. When all is done, you whip out your wallet and carefully consider a sizable tip in addition to the $20 she charged. When you fork over the money, she stops you.
"No, no...I can't take all that. You need to give $19 to the owner and $1 + tip to me. Sorry :) "
So you walk over to the scowling owner and get a grudging dollar back from your twenty, then you guiltily hand the stylist the $1 bill plus another $2 as a guilt tip.
That's sort of the way education funding works in this country right now.
The Federal government has laid down the rules (aka NCLB-Elementary and Secondary Education Act). The rules are backed by law but not by funding. Typical local school budgets in Virginia only get about 6% of the total annual budget from the Federal government, yet they get about 75% of the regulation from the same source.
This past summer, several Presidential hopefuls addressed the NEA Representative Assembly. Most of them had similar messages. "Testing" and "bubbles" were popular word choices. Yet which would-be President would do the best job for our children and the American public school teacher? Please view this link to determine who you think has the best and clearest vision for public school education.
Candidates Address the NEA
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