State and local governments are very much integrated in to the public education system. Simply by browsing through the pages on the PA educational website you can see and read the influence that the state has over the state and local education systems.
According to the website under students, “The Pennsylvania Department of Education strives to assist Pennsylvanians in becoming inspired, productive and fulfilled life-long learners by offering a wide variety of programs and services. The department 's efforts to help every student reach his or her fullest potential begin in the earliest years through the promotion of accessible, affordable, high-quality pre-kindergarten programs.”
From the website under parents, “Parents and families play an integral and unique role in the support, development and success of a student. To aid in their efforts, the Pennsylvania Department of Education provides a variety of resources aimed at helping parents and families as they guide students along the educational pathway. The department promotes a broad approach to educational and emotional development that encourages a collaboration of families, educators and the community to help every child reach his or her fullest potential.”
And from the website under Administrators, “The Pennsylvania Department of Education recognizes the importance of educational administrators in helping to create the best schools possible. To aid in their efforts, the department offers many resources targeted to
One reason why schools should be controlled locally would be for the fact that students’ needs their accomidations addressed. Every state/city/suburb has its own economic and demographic needs for their student population. One area of the state may have students that come from wealthy families and who may not need the same needs or areas addressed as would a low socioeconomic part of the state would. If education was controlled by the state and federal, the needs wouldn’t be addressed to the needs of your environment you live in but too where they think each student should already be at. Doing it that way could be bad for either party. The state would either end up holding the wealthy students back from their potential because the cirri culm wouldn’t be up to their needs because they would be forced to go by what the state or federal mandates them go by or the low socioeconomic students would be forced to learn at a faster pace and would be trying to keep up with the wealthy or more advanced students because they are forced by what the state and federal government thinks everyone should be at as far as learning styles.
Pennsylvania has strict limitations on funding schools. Local governments heavily influence the funding that does occur. The school district governance in Philadelphia has been a subject of debate. A large majority of the revenue that the local government receives is from property taxes. In the year 2000 property taxes regarded for almost $10 billion of the revenue in Pennsylvania. That was 30 percent of the total revenue that the local government received and 70 percent of all local government tax revenues. Property taxes accounted for roughly 85 percent of the overall tax revenues for Pennsylvania school districts in 2000. Practically half of all the school district’s revenue came from the compilation of property taxes. The one thing
Charles R. Lawrence III, a law professor at Georgetown University, released an article named “On Racist Speech” against the growing frequency of racial violence, especially in University campuses in the U.S., to the Chronicle of Higher Education in 1989. Lawrence begins his article by focusing on the message that hate speech “sends a destructive message to minorities that they are inferior.” The author brings up many other examples to support his message such as the court case Brown vs the Board of Education, instances of racist posters and fliers in college dormitories, and protesting against a “fighting words exemption.” Lawrence argues that although it is difficult for the government to write a law that will prevent racist speech without
Earning a B.S. in Education, Mr. Sholtis graduated from the nearby Misericordia University in the Spring of 2005, while majoring in English for his undergraduate studies. Subsequently, he was hired by the Wyoming Valley West School District as a middle school English teacher. Over the course of seven years, he went on to earn his M.S. in Education from Wilkes University. Simultaneously, he obtained his administrative principal certificate for public schools in the state of PA in 2012. Consequently, he changed career paths to become an administrator.
The care act 2014 sets out rules and responsibility for the care and support that happens between health and local authorities. Safeguarding adults means protecting someone’s rights to live in safety, free from abuse, neglect and harm. The care act requires that an enquiry must be establish if there is any risk of abuse and neglect and harm and if any action should need to be taken to stop any abuse or harm, and set up a safeguarding adult board in every local area. The care act 2014 sets clear legal rules for how local authorities and the health and care system should be protecting adult who are at risk of abuse and neglect. There have never been clear set rules laid out for safeguarding till now but authorities always tried to take care of
All children aged 3 and 4 in England can receive a free part time early years education of
At this time Pennsylvania titles as the “45th in the nation” in the proportion of finance the state gives for public education. This is inexcusable. Pennsylvania should take the lead in endowing in primary childhood education, K-12, and also should take the lead to
Several years ago Pennsylvania was only one of nice states that did not invest in a pre-kindergarten program however with the policies and programs for pre-kindergarten programs that are currently in place throughout the state educational communities are beginning to see differences in their students’ academic and reduction in at risk behaviors (Pre-K for PA, 2015). Pre-K Today states in their “Tools for the Campaign” article that due to increased funding by the state of Pennsylvania for pre-school programming and for policies such as the Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts there has been a reduction in grade retention and special education placement in elementary school, improvement in standardized test scores, reduction in juvenile crime, and higher
The state of Pennsylvania is focusing on the debate over how the state has funded the education system, which means the public school system. All the candidates note that the state has a duty to ensure that their children are educated so they can continue on into adulthood. They also have tried to empathize with voters about how they feel that the government is failing to fund public schools in particular in an adequate enough way. During the campaigns, none of the candidates really presented any solutions to the issue besides to increase funding. One candidate, Christine Donohue however was heavily endorsed by Pennsylvania’s Federation of Teachers. This shows that this federation believes in her ideas and ability to reform the education sector of the state. Also, Donohue has come out and said the reforming the education system is something that she holds as a priority for her time as a justice for the state. This means she has a clear purpose, like those we learned in class for her campaign and potential in
If there is one thing that all American’s can agree on it is that the education provided for our youth serves as the foundation for the continuation and prosperity of our nation’s future. On the smaller scale, the students that live and learn here in the state of California will become our congressmen, doctors, policemen; the future of our great state. The adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) was necessary for improving the education policies in place for the youth in California. For one, it replaced the failing academic system, the No Child Left Behind Act. Second, the CCSS drives students to build deeper conceptual understandings of course material and foster their critical-thinking and analytical skills. Next, the CCSS levels
The U.S. public education system contains tremendous inequality, much of which is maintained through the institution itself. We believe the system to be based on the principles of a strong work ethic and equal opportunity – key components of the dominant American ideology, which are in turn made reasonable by the schooling system. Furthermore, structural factors such as cumulative advantage, which explains how those who are successful gain additional success, offer an explanation for the inequalities in the school system that cannot be described or solved by money. Therefore, through the legitimation of the dominant American ideology and the process of cumulative advantage, the U.S. public education system perpetuates social inequality within the classroom and provides more power to those already born with greater life chances.
As for the administration of public education, there are several different levels on how schools are managed. There are public institutions that are managed in part by the national administration, but primarily by the state and local government. In terms of education, it is necessary for it to be governed locally because of the different needs that each district may face. Since some schools are in wealthier neighborhoods, they may score better than others that may be in much poorer neighborhoods.
The American education system is set up to create a clear division between the social classes. The quality of the education that children receive depends on whether they attend an elite school or urban schools. Elite schools are located in upper class neighborhoods. Students who attend elite schools receive high quality education. Demographically, the majority of students who attend elite schools are Caucasian. This does not necessarily have much to do with the skill level of the students who apply to the school. More often than not, the application process for these schools is discriminatory. Urban schools on the other hand, are inner city schools known for their diverse population of students who come from middle and lower class
The argument that cannabis or marijuana is bad for you has been around since the early 1930s. In fact, prior to this time period cannabis and hemp was widely used and produced for many sectors of the economy as well as recreational consumption. In 1937, the Marijuana Tax Act was passed by congress; effectively criminalizing all uses of the plant. Since this time cannabis has been a topic of discussion and argument. Recently, the US has seen a few states legalize cannabis while others continue to charge and persecute citizens for it’s use. The article titled “The case for marijuana legalization just got stronger” by Christopher Ingraham was written at the tail end of 2015. The article, published by The Washington Post, claims that despite the
Although these actions demonstrate that the federal government does play some role in the educational system, most school issues have always been settled at the state or local level.