As some of you may have heard last night during our President's State of the Union Address, Bush proposed to sign $300 million in grants for children in inner-city schools. The Pell Grants for Kids would funnel tax dollars to help low-income families to send their children to private or religious educational institutions. Many Democrats attacked him restating his failure with the No Child Left Behind Act of his first term, and continued by saying that the government is already billions in debt and does not have the resources to fund such a large proposal. I'm not quite sure whether I agree or disagree with this. It would be great to send these kids to good schools, but the Democrats have a point too, we don't have the money to do this. I'll post the link to the site, let me know what you guys think.
--Mike
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/washington/29educ.html?ref=us
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Mike,
Nice to see you on here.
I like how you are connecting real world events with our class discussion. This topic will certainly be one we can talk about in regards to assessment.
I will hold off on taking a side until we touch on it in class.
How is that for being "careful"? haha
Thanks for sharing.
Who says we don't have money? Sorry, I'm a tad Republican so let me say this: if a Democrat had come up with that idea, he would be praised beyond all comprehension. But since it was proposed by Bush, it's scoffed at. That's what this country has come down to. I'm pretty sure at this point that Bush can knock on the doors of every American household, handing out $1000 bills, and still be hated.
How about Bush spends some of that $720 million dollars a day that we spend on the war in Iraq for education in the U.S!
I like the idea of his proposal but realistically I do not believe it will happen. Furthermore, as a result of producing these vouchers, public schools will lose much needed money because it would be going to the proposal. I don’t think the proposal would be worth it.
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