Essay On Texas Education

College tuition has skyrocketed over the past decades making the pathway to college less accessible to low-income families. According to the

Education development has been an important matter in Texas for decades. Texas has been known for their improvements and reformation in public schools since their first attempt of a public school system. Within these improvements, came issues that escalated to create our public education system today. The issues that helped arrange the system are desegregation, equity in funding, and education policy.

The topic of this paper is the states’ decreasing financial support of higher education, the reaction and response from institutions who have lost funding, and the creative ways public institutions are locating additional streams of revenue. States have been the primary backer of public institutions, but since the recession states have shown less commitment financially while still heavily regulating higher education. As a result some institutions have had to change their practices while others have challenged their state’s regulations all together. Many have speculated that state funding may never return to its former highs. Rather than make an enemy of the state, some schools have discovered new and unconvential ways of raising funds for their institution.

Immigration has been a controversial topic for many years. Recently though the government and the people have come to some difficult impasses in what each deems a good idea versus a bad idea when dealing with immigrants. In this article, we find the topic of immigration mixed with the ever-present topic of educational cost. To say college is expensive would be an understatement. The cost to go to college is high and it often guides a person’s choice in where they go. In-state tuition is one of the small ways a student can minimize the exuberant costs that will haunt them for the next ten years. Unfortunately for those students, who although they were raised in the state of Texas do not posses the requirements of being a Texas citizen, the help

According to comparing table of Texas in education area with other states in US, I see that Texas was ranked in the low stage generally, excepting public school enrollment. Texas government invests a great number of money into public school in order to support Texas citizens’ tuition. The hierarchy of Texas will effect negatively to society, economy, and policy in the future. The proportion of people over twenty-five years old in the state having high school diplomas was ranked fiftieth in US. This number shows that the number of Texans having high school certification is very low leading to have a poor ability human resource to companies and government organizations in the future. Poor skills will not produce high quality productions or manage companies

Charles Schwertner is a Texas Tribune who wrote “Tuition deregulation is failing Texas students” in December, 11, 2014 and published in Star-telegram.com website. His main audience are Texas students. His argument presents the “broken system” of tuition and fees at public universities had left many students in debt. Students’ debt accumulated and surpassed credit card debt to be a second source of debt in our country. His argument does have some flaws, but overall it really convinces me that tuition and fees at college are a big problem today.

Presently, the availability of educational opportunities at the college and university level is a critical state and personal interest given the needs of the state for a well-educated workforce which has never been greater. Too many, the focal point of attending college is receiving a high paying job in the future. Unfortunately, in most states, tuition is on the rise and students who come from low-income families find themselves struggling to fund their education. According to legislatures, “The cost of college in New Jersey, as in the nation, continues to grow faster than the rate of inflation.” (State of New Jersey 1). In the national financial aid policy resources that are typically given to the neediest families are shifting towards

What students pay at Texas universities has more than doubled since 2003, according to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. We have years of state disinvestment to thank.

Seeing all of the low ranks Texas has been placed at is extremely shocking for many of the categories. I feel like Texans hold themselves on such a high pedestal along with their state so its odd to see us ranked so low. One of the ones that very much stood out to me was how low we were ranked in the school system. In all my years of elementary, middle, and high school we were always praised for such outstanding test scored on our standardized test or how we were some of the best schools in the state. My thought is that maybe our schools here are more focused on us passing our standardized test rather than actually learning and making good grades that all we ever succeed is our test. We are trained from a young age that we will be

Everyone at the table did research into the issue of state funding for higher education by looking at state budget numbers as well as looking at studies published by education-focused think tanks such as the National Education Policy Center and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. When we debated the issue, many of us noticed a horrible trend of decreasing

In order to operate and sustain despite the decline in federal funding, HBCUs must find strategic ways to bring in more dollars. For most of these institutions, raising tuition is not a viable option. HBCUs are positioned as low-cost institutions that provide access students with low-incomes, and tuition hikes could lead to declines in enrollment. Students, typically within HBCUs' enrollment pool due to low income status, would not be able to pay, and other students would have to borrow more money to attend. (Clay, 2013). Additionally, most HBCUs would not be able to expand their scholarship offerings to make up for the tuition increase, and scholarships are needed in order to compete for the best and brightest students (Clay, 2013). To fill

Ralph Martire and Danielle Stanley presented a presentation that covered Illinois disinvestment in higher education. Between 2000 and 2015, Illinois cut nearly $1.4 billion from General Fund appropriations to Higher Education. Ralph Martire, Executive Director of Center for Tax and Budget Accountability (CTBA) went over the drops in funding for higher education. Ralph has a firm stance on how he feel about investing in higher education saying “Investing in higher education has always been important,” “But in today’s economy, the strong correlations between post-secondary education and economic viability make it more important than ever.” Ralph also went over how General Fund Appropriations for Public Universities has been low for universities

Along this path of financial gains, “vital public institutions lose their public character in a manner that’s difficult, sometimes impossible, to reverse” (Carey). In the largest sector of higher education, which serves seventy-three percent of all college students (O'Shaughnessy), not only are state governments insufficiently supporting their youth, but they are also putting a greater weight on the federal government’s shoulders. In the past 10 years alone, total annual expenditures of federal financial aid have increased from $60 billion to nearly $170 billion (Carey). Thus, a combination of state disinvestment and increased tuition has forced the federal government, which is already trillions of dollars in debt, to become the last resort for the working

American higher education is described by Engell and Dangerfield (2005) as “The fastest-expanding and often strongest motivation in American higher education is now money” (as quoted in Bean, 2007, page 240). For instance, budget cuts have been administered nearly all over the country but how does it affect the institutions within that state. When states are unable to provide aid to school districts due to budget cuts in our economy it in turn takes away needed courses that educate students that can be an economic contributor later in life, Carter (2011). The United States Census Bureau (2013) conducted a statistical analysis which analyzed the debt for each states school system finances, and the analysis showed the annual debt for the state of Alabama school system was $5 million dollars by the end of the fiscal school year. This will continue to increase with budget cuts increasing every year for education across the United States and will be detrimental to the educational abilities of the school districts to perform at a high level. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, cuts to educational funding will

A solid education is a permanent foundation that can carry an individual through life. The necessities expected from the workforce are often developed and shaped during an individual’s collegiate years. However, with the growing demand of education, the price is furthermore higher. Experts argue that many contributors have also impacted tuition costs; for example, state funding has been cut in order to support new initiatives, like energy and healthcare (Kantrowitz, 2012). In addition, blame has been placed on scholarship spending. H.E. Riggs argues that the overall spending toward merit students as skyrocketed fees for the entire population. Meanwhile Greg Forster believes that disregard toward adequate merit spending as led to the