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Education
Education:
No Child Left Behind Act:
The NCLB law is unfair and will end up leaving most children behind.
a) With the narrow emphasis of the mandated testing, the only thing learned is what is needed for the tests.
b) If schools do not pass then funding is cut. By taking money out of failing school systems there is no way to bring those systems back up to par. By cutting funding, essentials to learning like books and teachers’ pay will have to be cut. This is no way to fix school systems. School systems in wealthy communities can buy materials and pay their teachers decent wages. Schools in poorer communities cannot. The real effect of NCLB is to punish poor children for being poor.
Privatization:
Privatization has not fixed the school system that has been privatized. By making the schools profit oriented, the price per person has gone up. This is not a way to fix a school system.
College Tuition
College tuition for State Colleges should be free; doing so will help to end poverty. People of lower income will have the ability to go to college and be able to move out of the slums. They than can make a better life for themselves and their families.
This plan would not only help to end poverty, but also will help to bring taxes into the Fed. More and more people will be getting college degrees and leaving their ten thousand dollar a year job, which they probably pay no or little taxes on to a job that pays thirty thousand dollars a year
If we have more people who earn more than the national poverty level, then we also have more people who pay taxes.
This plan can do a lot more than just end poverty and bring in more taxes. This plan also can help end welfare. If more and more people go to college, they will get the training needed to move up to a better job instead of relying on the welfare system.
This program will cost an estimated 120 billion dollars a year, almost half of Bush’s last tax cut. By rolling back the tax cut we can fund this program and Universal Health Care.
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Paid for by Ferrucci for Congress, Christopher Reilly, Treasurer
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