Making Public Education a Priority

Posted by noah on April 9, 2009 under Preparing for Midterm Elections 2010 | Be the First to Comment

I don’t know about you, but all I hear when I listen to our School Board meetings is how they have to lay off more school employees (administrators, custodians, bus drivers, etc.), cut funding for programs, not give teachers their well deserved raises, and cut back on supplies, field trips, and other resources. It’s budget cuts, budget cuts, budget cuts. And it’s been going on for a long time. How much more can they cut? We are already bringing our own copy paper, toilet paper and soap! And lots of really great, enthusiastic new teachers can’t be hired L I know that it’s a complicated issue, and public schools get their funding from the state and the federal government, but something’s got to be done. I decided to look further into this issue and produced a documentary called “Left Behind,” and entered it in the C-SPAN Student Cam competition, as a response to their question: What issue should the new President make a priority? It was a tough choice, but I said EDUCATION! As it turns out, “Left Behind” won 3rd place in the competition. From the state that’s earned its distinction as 50th in funding public education…