Educational Funding
Argumentative on the Dispersal of Federal Educational Funds American founding father Benjamin Franklin states, "If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." Influenced heavily by the ideals of the founding fathers, the United States continues in the pursuit of knowledge, and strives to provide a means to create an intelligent society. Since the birth of the American public school system in the late nineteenth century, the public education system remains the target of many disagreements in the political arena, such as the debate of how to disperse the nation's educational funds. Today there are two opposing systems concerning educational funding, the current program of distributing educational funds and the system of publicly funded vouchers. Both systems present many advantages and disadvantages, but which one would more adequately meet educational challenges in the U.S.
today? Even though the idea of publicly funded vouchers has been proposed and considered, the present program of distributing educational funds appears to be more reliable and practical with a few minute changes.
The public school system, as it exists today, consists of the government distributing federal funds and local property taxes to a public school based on the student population. This system succeeds in many aspects by providing a free education to all American citizens, allowing public schools to have materials and curriculums that financially challenged families could not afford. More than just education, the public school system supports various organizations and clubs based on personal interest and career tracks, allowing the student to access preparation necessary for the occupation they plan to pursue. But, as in any complex form of governmental funding, the current system of dispersing educational funding has significant need for reformation. Under the...
School Funding
This is a decent essay, but two points need to be made. First, you "disburse" funds, not "disperse" them. Second, the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of school vouchers in a case decided this past term.
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