Education: Non-market benefits, funding, and vouchers. Ronald Garner
Date Submitted: 08/27/2002 04:04:03
Category: / Society & Culture / Education
Length: 16 pages (4312 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / Education
Length: 16 pages (4312 words)
Why is public funding of education important? For one, it is estimated that the number of people involved in education in the United States is around eighty million. This includes roughly 69.2 million students, 4.3 million students, and 4.8 million administrators. Secondly according to the National Center for Education Statistics, Federal support for education, excluding estimated federal tax expenditures, was an estimated 147.9 billion in the Fiscal year 2002. This is an increase of 85.1 million when compared to the fiscal …
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…for ways in which one feels is proper for the public funding of education. Finally, its important knows the positive affects that vouchers can have on the education of themselves and their children. Evidence to the importance of education among the people of America and its politicians was that in January of 2002, President Bush signed the No Child Left behind Act. This was a twelve-year plan to increase the academic standards across America's public schools.
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