The Federal Government Needs To Take More Responsibility for
the Funding of the Nation's Public Schools
I spent most of my life as a public high school teacher, coach, and school administrator. That is why the public-schools issue is so very close to my heart. I believe that the federal funding to the public schools should be increased threefold to $36 billion a year to help repair and modernize schools, to provide necessary equipment, textbooks, and provide for a fully comprehensive currriculum that would restore all programs that have been eliminated in the name of cost cutting; such as music, arts, humanities, physical education, etc. As a federal government, we need to get to get our priorities straight. We need to invest in our schools where the money will pay positive results. We are spending more on our peacekeeping efforts in Kosovo and in Columbia's civil/drug war (with little if any positive results) than we spend on our public school students in this country. Why should our students and teachers be second-class citizens in a nation that is experiencing its greatest economy ever. If elected, I would dedicate myself to getting these priorities changed in Congress. Our business-as-usual Congress doesn't get it.
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