Congress Returns To Face Education Funding Issues And ESEA

Education Week:

Congress returns from its summer recess this week with a full plate of unfinished business on the future of K-12 spending and policy--a tall order in Washington's polarized political climate.

Federal lawmakers, who have already had two protracted battles this year over budget issues, must finish the appropriations bills for fiscal 2012. The budget process is complicated by the work of a new panel created as part of a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling and charged with finding ways to significantly cut the deficit over the next decade.

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Comments

[mangafreak2128]

09:19 PM on 09/06/2011

I have an idea. Screw the deficit and triple the amount money spent on education. Invest in the education and you invest in the future. And maybe, just maybe, these kids will grow up and find new solutions to solve our countries problems and in turn, reduce the debt. Crazy, I know.

[Viper1st]

06:58 PM on 09/06/2011

Congress could save $7.8 billion annually, by not educating 850,000 illegal K-12 students annually or use these funds to better educate U.S. Citizen student by hiring more U.S. Citizen teachers instead of laying them off as did 46 of the 50 States slashing their Education Funding in which to balance their 2011-12 State Budgets

[blakewelding]

06:30 PM on 09/06/2011

End the Dept of Ed. take that money and give it to the schools that perform.

[megwright]

03:34 PM on 09/06/2011

I greatly fear for the funding of education in this country, with so many on the GOP side determined to destroy public schools. NCLB DOES need to be completely altered. It was designed to ensure that 99% of public schools "failed" by 2014. Each year we get closer to that time, more schools are designated as "failing," even some of the best schools in the country. We need to get past the idea of using standardized tests as the only measure of how students and the educational system as a whole are doing. High stakes testing takes time away from other types of learning, and is often used as a bludgeon against teachers and schools.