State And Local Education System

State departments of education must be able to build capacity within their state by providing districts the essentials for developing a clear vision of what their schools’ futures entail, and the necessary components of professional development for leadership and teachers to create their own goals at the local level. Once this is accomplished, states need to hold the districts and local levels accountable, including themselves.

Federal Government in Education The State and local government is primarily responsible for funding education and determining educational policy. The federal government contributes about eight percent of the funding for education ("Federal Role in Education - US Department of Education", 2016). The federal government’s funding typically goes towards programs for children with disabilities or schools that made adequate yearly progress (AYP).

Upon a $28 million renovation project, the State Street Elementary building is currently one of the most state of the art school buildings within Northeastern PA. Ironically, this two-story building stands in the shape of a “W” and houses nearly 1,200 students and houses kindergarten through fifth-grade and is labeled as a large suburban Title I School. Intricately, it provides full-day usage-space to the Luzerne County Head Start Program that offers services to the future students of State Street Elementary, which is a county wide support system for low income children. Although the building has only been around a few short years, it consists of historically underperforming and economically disadvantaged

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

This led us to a total cuts of $862.0 million, “equaled to 13.6 percent” of the revenue that Pennsylvania school districts gain from the state budget in2010-2011. Moreover, the decline in state aid affected the districts with greater ratio of children living in poverty more than other districts (2). This cuts have a great effect on many areas such as:

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 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

All children aged 3 and 4 in England can receive a free part time early years education of

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.

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.

These numbers show clearly how unfair Pennsylvania’s school funding is. School income shapes the students’ success, and without enough resources this goal cannot be met.

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

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.

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

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.