Public SchoolsJoin now to read essay Public SchoolsSome people argue that those who do not send their children to public schools should not have to fund these schools through taxes, since neither parents nor children benefit from these schools. They ignore the fact that everyone benefits from the strong economy that a well-educated populace generates.
The argument that everyone should be forced to fund public schools is more compelling. The government realized that the survival of our economy depended on several key factors, with education being one of them. If the decision to fund or not to fund public schools were left to American citizens, most Americans would simply choose not to pay and use these funds for other personal needs they would consider priorities. Unfortunately, a lack of financial support for the public schools would cause more harm than good and yield a negative domino effect for our economy: A shortage of financial support for public schools would result in fewer schools. This effect would cause overcrowding in other public schools. This would also cause a shortage of jobs for teachers and a shortage of students. A shortage of jobs for teachers
The Federal Government’s Role in Proposed Budget Concessions
The Federal government’s role in implementing the proposed budget agreements negotiated by the Democratic Party and passed for Fiscal Year 2016 have been very large—about $17 billion. In FY 2016, the Department of Justice, along with the National Association of Public and Technical Education Programs (NAPTEC), created the National Conference of State Boards of Education—a consortium that was to include all states and the District of Columbia. The NAPTEC created the CCCEN Program, which is similar to the NAPTEC but included a set of charter schools, not all-public education, but all-public in a broad sense. The CCCEN Program was, under the direction of the Democratic Party, to promote public education in the private sector, which was a problem for the Republican Party’s plan to eliminate public college education. In the NAPTEC’s report , the Department of Justice, in an effort to create the CCCEN Program, gave the Democrats a major platform, particularly with respect to the debt ceiling, debt ceiling, and the deficit reduction plan. . . . In this way, the Obama Administration’s strategy of trying to build out a budget surplus by “passing the debt ceilings” in a budget surplus package led to the deficit becoming more significant than it had ever been before. By taking the debt ceiling hostage, Democratic and Republican opponents turned a loss of credibility on the deficit into more significant financial losses for the GOP. The Treasury’s ability to deal with such crises is extremely low. This fact should tell both sides quite clearly that we cannot continue for a very long time to borrow money from the United States of America. (That is, to pay for our debt.) The Democrats and Republicans on Social Security have had a very similar experience working in this field. In 2004 the Republican Party, which had been trying for years to “redistribute wealth to society” by increasing the federal budget, passed a budget surplus. By 2009, it had lost control of the Senate. Democrats and Republicans spent an average of $36 million on Social Security in 2008, which they put to good use at a time when Republicans, who had spent much of the time that the Democrats dominated the House, spent their time to pass a deficit reduction bill. That deficit bill had the House narrowly passing it, but the Senate had to approve it. The Senate had never voted on an economic stimulus package and the House passed it. The Senate passed it without a vote because it was too weak. Republicans chose to control the Senate in hopes that the GOP would not have to deal with the budget deficit that the Democrats had to deal with. In fact they made such a difference, and took the Senate over, to make the deficit that was projected to reach $2.4 trillion in 2010. The deficit was a bigger factor than the economy had ever been before, as the deficit was projected to grow by 13.5 percent when Congress had to pass an economic stimulus package. In 2011, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that between $5.7 trillion and $10 trillion in spending for fiscal year 2012 would be needed to offset about a trillion new deficit by 2012. Since 2011, almost the entire budget deficit now exceeds that and thus has gone to other programs. In 2009, the Senate budget