Schools and funding are at a crossroads
GLEE GIVES $1 MILLION! Your vote can help deserving schools ... Check out this video and help this school win up to 50K for their school music program. Lend your voice by voting today. Wall Street’s excesses blew up the economy. Now the question is who pays to clean up the mess. And across the country, our children are already paying part of the bill – as their schools are hit with deep budget cuts. A new report – StarvingAmerica’s Public Schools: How Budget Cuts and Policy Mandates are Hurtingour Nation’s Students – released Oct.12, 2011 by the Campaign for America’s Future and the National Education Association looks at five states to detail what this means to kids in our public elementary and secondary schools. Every study shows the importance of early childhood education. Analysts at the Federal Reserve discovered that investments in childhood development have, in the words of Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, such “high publi...