New Education Spending

       President Barack Obama is working with congress to improve schools across the country. He wants to turn the poor schools around. Obama also called on Congress to finish work on a measure to revitalize community colleges. And he called for a $10,000 tax credit to families for four years of college, and an increase in Pell Grants. Obama will ask Congress to boost federal spending on education by as much as $4 billion in the coming 2011 budget year. Of the total, $3 billion is slated for elementary and secondary education programs ranging from teacher quality to student safety, and  $1.35 billion for Obama's "Race to the Top" competitive grant program. The request for $4 billion would increase federal education spending by about 6 percent. The Education Department also wants to eliminate six programs, deeming them duplicative or ineffective. The agency would consolidate 38 other programs into 11 programs to eliminate bureaucracy and red tape.
         As a future educator, I am pleased to know the issues of educations are being addressed. However, I do not understand where all this money is coming from. For 2010, public schools across the country are making major cuts including laying off teachers. How do we have $4 billion for the next? Education needs more national attention because these are the students of our future, but we can not send our country into further financial devisate. With an increase in financial support for education we must continue to make cuts in other areas of the economy. I am glad to know that the education of our students is important to our nation and that a change is on the way.


Resource:
Obama to Seek Up to $4B in New Education Spending. AP News, c2010.
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