Raise Fair Student Funding (FSF)

With the possibility of World War III looming over the world’s head and domestic unrest, federally paid tuition should not become a topic of discussion in a political debate. Evidently, prepaid college is a big topic. Can the citizens of America live with their consciences if they were to accept such an irrational national expense? The United States Federal Government should not pay for the first two years of college for all U.S. Citizens. The U.S. Government does not comprehend the idea of cash flow, but they do understand that the Federal Reserve is there to back up all of the expenses that they acquire. This act would basically add two more years in high school; thus, adding more chances for the national dropout rate to soar even higher. School systems are not the business of the Federal Government; there are bigger issues that must be dealt with before subsidizing tuition.

There are financial ramifications for the school division each time a student is opt-ed out of the public school system. State funding is determined by Average Daily Membership (ADM), which equates to $5,418 per student for Fiscal Year 2015 (VEA, 2014). Thus, the current cost of registered homeschooled students in SCPS is a staggering $5,613,048. Consequently, examining ways in which the division can address the needs of the homeschooled population while recapturing lost funds is imperative.

•     Reimbursement of up to 75% of tuition costs for up to 15 college credits per fiscal year (1 October to 30 September)

Indeed the National Center for Education Statistics reports that, in the 2011-12 academic year, 71 percent of all undergraduate students received some form of financial aid. Moreover, the average amount of aid was in excess of $10,000 (qtd. in Marklein). Proponents of the current FAFSA are right to point to data showing the large number of students receiving aid and average aid amounts, but these figures do not go beyond the surface. While the current FAFSA is not a broken system, it does need reform and improvements to increase its positive impact on college bound

In order to implement this policy, responsibility will be bestowed upon the “Foundation School Program” and the Texas state Legislature (Grusendorf, 2015, pg.2). These two groups play the most vital role in changing and implementing the new “state formulas” (Grusendorf, 2015, pg.3). Both will work together in creating and agreeing to the new state formulas. We will review the formulas every year and decide if funding is truly being distributed with equity. Only if they are not then will both organizations have to re-write the formulas to improve upon them.

Approaching the halfway point of the program brought me to the Introduction to School Finance EDA 6240, which focused on the fiscal management of the organization and utilizing resources to maximize an environment conducive to learning. Because public education is a responsibility of each state, funding public education is crucial to creating a productive and successful society. The Florida Education Funding Program (FEFP) equalized funding for education regardless of how wealthy one area is over the other. An important component of the FEFP is the full time equivalent (FTE), which represents a student who was present during the Survey FTE week. Money is earned for each one of the FTEs. Learning about the base student allocation, the amount

I agree with you 100%. The enrollment and financial aid process was a little annoying. When I would ask my advisor, she couldn't really help me. When I called into financial aid sometimes I would get voice mails. I think adding more stuff would help. I mean there are a lot of students. A couple of times no one even called me back and I had to kept calling till I got someone!

Being a component of society is an unavoidable status that every person falls into. To escape it would be impossible as society itself is the interweaving lives, systems, beliefs and ideas that every individual contributes to and experiences. Without a contextual perspective, comprehending one’s place in society while in the chaos of personal and widespread clashes is challenging. Sociology and, thus, the sociological perspective allows people to understand the threads that connect them to someone else or to the institutes that surround them.

There are diverse and contradictory views on school funding inequalities and school performance. Various research and reports have shown in great detail beyond this paper’s scope that inequalities in school funding does cause different outcomes for school children (Jackson, Johnson, & Persico, (2015. Unequal funding leads to unequal education: from the start, schools have different resources and means to educate our children (Kozol, (1991). Other reports suggest that different funding will lead to different social outcomes later on in life (Hyman, (2013); Biddle & Berliner, (2002). The fact is that schools in poorer neighborhoods all over the united states, funding are limited and they have poorer schools (Kozol, 1991). Schools in richer areas and especially in suburban white neighborhoods receive higher funding and they have better schools (Kozol, 1991). Some argue that school funding is not the problem and throwing money at the problem would not be the solution. This is somewhat contradictory because most well-funded schools are predominantly white. The schools are well lit, classrooms are spacious, student-to-teacher ratio is smaller, labs are well equipped, hot lunches are plenty, and teachers are experienced and well paid (Kozol (1991); Jackson, Johnson, & Persico, (2015).

But then again funds on schools are not the same from state to state. This can be explained by the different educational input costs like real estate and teachers salaries. But that’s a whole other story. Funding for schools is not the issue obviously it just needs more of a balancing. The balancing can help out drastically because there will not be a huge gap in the financing of schools. In other words, many Americans will not have to worry about their child attending a school with overcrowded classrooms.

Conflict Theory states that there is an unequal distribution of resources between the “have” and the “have nots”. In the movie, there was an unequal distribution of school funds. For Malik to be able to attend Columbus University on a scholarship, he must run. If he doesn’t run, they will take his scholarship away and he can no longer go to school. Not only were there an unequal distribution of school funds, the privilege among the school seemed to be uneven too. Many of the white students at the school got away with disciplinary actions due to the color of their skin. Police on campus requested student ID’s from the black students on campus, even with familiar faces on familiar parts of them

School funding is a mix of different funding sources like federal, state, and local. About ninety percent of funding for education comes from state and local community. K-12 education has failed to keep up with high enrollment. Schools must spend to counter effects of poverty while many European countries alleviate these conditions through government spending. Currently more than forty percent of low income school get an extremely unfair share of state and local funds. Low income school are receiving inadequate funds for their school, whereas other schools in the United States are unfairly distributing their state and local funds. That is unfair to the low income schools because those schools really need the money for school books, field trips, etc. Funding for public schools has been quite unequal for years, but even though Americans are fully aware of this issue no one does anything to solve it. Researchers are trying to show them both sides of this unequal funding issue in public schools in order to help balance the distribution of educational funding.

20 students (Flannery 2). Surely some of the $24 million that the U.S. Department of

Giving a visual model of where the school needs to spend their focus on, Coffman shared a series of data tables, which showed what occupations filed claims within the 2016-17 school year, which shows aides having the highest number of claims within the district, with a remarkable $120,387 total.

The Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) supports a total of 80 programs striving to achieve three distinct missions: promoting academic excellence, creating educational opportunities and equity, and improving the quality of education through financial and technical assistance and leadership. For the fiscal year of 2017, President Obama requested a sum of $209.1 billion for the OESE, accounting for $69.4 in discretionary funds and $139.7 in mandatory funds, which overall is a two percent increase from the 2016 budget request. This money specifically was meant to support the Every Student Succeeds, Preschool for All, and Computer Science for All acts, as well as programs such as RESPECT, Stronger Together, and America’s College Promise, while also increasing the Pell Grant and simplifying the FAFSA process. However, according to the 2017 appropriations bill, the OESE received only $67 billion; a $1.3 billion decrease from 2016. This reduction in funding is meant to address fewer programs than originally requested, with special priority placed on the ESSA, Title 1 and IDEA grants for states.