Schools then submit annual reports on the results from student test scores, thus allowing the government and parents to examine the performance and quality of those schools. According to the No Children Left Behind web site, " Since the elementary and Secondary Education Act first passed congress in 1965, the federal government has spent more than 321 billion (in 2002 dollars) to help educate disadvantaged children. ... Lastly, there will be some investigation to whether the participating schools are keeping up with their end of the bargain, and most importantly, if the government is adherin...

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While it is true that the individual salary range will increase this also puts them in a higher income tax bracket, where the State and Federal government will now get a bigger share of the pie through taxes. ... The government needs to put regulations in place across the board to ensued that private schools stop increasing their tuition at such a drastic pace just because they can. ... Also the government can restructure the GI bill so that more incentives are provided to attend college after their military service. ... Tuition for Non-U.S students who are often paid by their government to ...

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The last concept is Government. Government is ubiquitous. ... When the President, Federal Officials and Undersecretary of Education is involved, you can see how Government is everywhere. ... Remember that government is everywhere. ... President Bush and the federal officials are the power behind the government. ...

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By a certain grade level students should be at a certain level in whatever the course that they may be taking and the government sees this through the use of the standardized test. ... The government implemented the "No child left behind" program because if a student is not prepared it can be very devastating for the future education that they may choose to indulge themselves. The no child left behind act "dramatically increases the role of the federal government in guaranteeing the quality of public education for all children in the United States" (PBS 1). Students who can...

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The use of the National Government's budget surplus to fund law enforcement for nationwide public school districts on a permanent basis. ... Although it would be costly to the local and state government agencies, the federal budget surplus would be able to provide annual compensation for the proposed solution. ...

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On the other hand, conservatives believe that federal money should be granted to state and local governments in the form of vouchers. ... Liberals seem to believe that taxes are a federal entitlement. ... Liberals think it is the government's responsibility to provide lifetime health care and should be provided by government regulated HMO organizations funded by tax dollars. On the contrary, conservatives think that the government has limited health care responsibility and the government should provide tax incentives to people so they can buy their own health insurance. ... Liberals belie...

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According to Lucia Solorzano, "Since federal aid has not kept pace with inflation, colleges have found they must pick up the slack, so they are raising tuition." ... I believe if the government was to incorporate a policy limiting institution's profits, such as a maximum percent added to the operating cost, then they can set a "fair" tuition price. ... That is what I feel the government's role is: to provide for the people, while at the same time looking out for the country's future. ... If more Americans have degrees, then, theoretically, the median income will rise, and the ...

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Chris Johnson State & Local Government November 30, 2000 Interest Groups Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, Inc. ... Gonzalez (TX), and Edward Roybal (CA), to monitor legislative and other government activity that affects Hispanics. ... goal was to work in conjunction with other groups, both inside and outside Congress, to strengthen the Federal commitment to Hispanic citizens and heighten the Hispanic community's awareness of the operation and function of the American political system. ... Their vision is an educated and civically active Latino community who partic...

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Bagby tackles the political issues that should truly matter to young voters such as the future of Social Security, education reform, the environment, and federal debts. ... The majority of the federal budget goes towards the "big-ticket items" such as Social Security, national defense, and medicare. ... Bagby goes on the explain that Social Security is basically on its way out and that the money being paid now for social security is really being used by the federal government to loosen up our debts with other countries and our big problem, our national debt. The federal government is spending ...

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The federal government has little say in holding public schools accountable. ... According to federal rules, transfer students are counted against the originating university as dropouts. ... If the federal government shifts its policy toward rewarding public universities for retention and graduation rates, these universities will be pressured into accepting fewer non-traditional students to maintain a high graduation rate. ... But if those families are looking to the Federal government for help, they can think again. ...

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It will take a well thought out, and discussed financial change in federal student aid programs to make higher education more accessible to those families with lower income who struggle to afford it. ... With a number so staggeringly high, it would only make sense that the government pays a serious amount of financial attention to these people. ... Well, it will take some government financial reconstruction in the higher education area. ... The government needs to look at financial aid for college students as an investment. ... Some of these benefits include; Higher overall salaries, which wo...

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In the 1930's, the arts education grew so much in the United States that the Federal Arts Program (FAP) was created as part of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal; and provided jobs for unemployed artists and musicians to work in public schools (Flynn, 2011). ... Department of Education (DOE) and the NEA are the federal agencies that are responsible for the federal funds for arts education; and to them the arts education is one of the lowest priorities (Flynn, 2011). ... A report in January 2006 on the status of arts education in California concluded that: "Emphasis on reading ...

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Vocational education, or career and technical education, is an elective program that provides middle, high school, and adult learners with training in a particular career. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, approximately 11 million people are served by the vocational educatio...

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By 1973, the federal budget for bilingual education had grown to 45 million dollars and supported programs in twenty-six different languages(Lang 61). ... Critics say that the federal government spends up to $178 million a year ( Porter 7 ). The government should not spend so much money on a program that doesn't really work. ... The government could use the money in a more useful place like Medicare and housing for the people of the America. ...

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All of the other programs that the government is not requiring (like gifted programs) are being cut by many schools because there is not enough money. ... Going back to the NCLB, the government has absolutely no plan for students that ace the assessments. ... An interesting fact is that gifted and talented programs usually receive one tenth of a percent of federal education money but disadvantaged and handicapped programs usually receive nearly eighty-five percent of it. ...

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Next, numerous public colleges are also supported by the state and federal governments. The higher education budgets and grants are becoming less because of the budget cuts by the governments. ... Increased faculty members, student financial aid, name status, state and federal budget cuts, and valued education are some of the reasons that our colleges and universities have raised tuition. ...

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With funding from The Carnegie Corporation of New York, the MacArthur Foundation, various government agencies (National Science Foundation, Department of Education, Department of Energy, and NASA), and Triangle Coalition members, the Coalition has administered and managed a large number of grants and programs. ... Appointed to this position in August 2012, McAdams represents the Department in the strategic planning process for the federal Committee on STEM Education (CoSTEM) and is leading the design of a major STEM innovation initiative for the second term under Secretary Duncan and President...

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John Thelin states in, "How the college went from affordable to sky-high," that back in, "1965 to 1972," the government began to pave a new road along with the states by investing, in the people by coming up with a program called the National Defense Student Loan Program, which later became the Federal Perkins Loan Program. ... During the 1965 to 1972 institutions began to help personally by paying out of pocket providing grants and partnered with the government and came up with financial aid assistance to students. ... Shaughnessy says that the economists believe that students ...

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My parents make enough to money to where the government did not deem me a suitable recipient for the Pell Grant. ... However due to the budget cuts, I only was able to receive 6,000 in federal loans. ... The unsettling reality is that students who are not the richest suffer more from the decrease of government funds. The government funds these after-school programs and extracurricular activities. ... Our government spends money wherever they want. ...

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While the government insists that standardized tests are a necessary part of education many others feel that the tests are unfair and biased representations of schools' success. ... If the students continuously perform poorly the school loses a multitude of things including state and federal funding, withdrawal of accreditation and even student attendance. ... According to Mike Rose in "School Reform Fails the Test" government involvement in classrooms has increased over the past ten years and the encouraging classroom environment has all but disappeared. ... Students, teachers,...

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The methods span form implementation of local policies to federal mandated policies. ... This, however, was not the first attempt at governmental influence in the public education system. ... The results of these tests are then used to allocate federal funds to the specific school districts (Trolian 4). ...

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Milwaukee Public Schools have a higher budget than any other school district in Wisconsin. This is probably because MPS has a large number of staff working for them as well as over 86,000 students; therefore, Milwaukee Public schools are one of the largest employers in Wisconsin. The state and feder...

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While the most successful schools spend more money per student than the least successful, a function of economic and geographical segregation, in the last eight years the federal government decided that it would rather mandate what it deemed to be a solution of higher standards for all students through No Child Left Behind's unfunded legislation than address systemic issues like poverty and racism, which are at the heart of the problem. ...

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Tuition on the Rise Almost everyone can agree that high school students should further there education. No matter if it is a university or community college. What if you could not afford to go to college because every year the college raises the tuition? We all agree that tuition should be lowere...

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Within the past decades and a half considerable discussion has occurred regarding the most appropriate setting within which to provide education for students in special education. Although the change in the educational environment is significant for handicapped student the concepts of inclusion also...

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