The California Education System

The modern day has brought upon many improved aspects, whether technological, medical, or even personal details, but also many defective facets, such as the topic of issue, Common Core Standards. The system that seems to not work in some places, but continues to stay. The Common Core Curriculum is a set of standards that a student has to be “proficient” in by the end of the school year, and the standards vary by state. It also tests students by having them do benchmarks, so they can show the teachers that they are where they need to be. Many claim that these standards will improve the education, career, and life of the students that are in the program, but is it truly the case? With three main flaws in the system, such as how cursive writing

The educational system in the United States was originally developed using concepts from around the world, created using ingenuitive ideas from countries such as China, Japan, and Korea. However, as the United States quickly moved into position as the leading country for state-directed educational standards, America looked less and less to the systems of other nations and more into how we could improve what was locally and currently being applied in education. Consequently, an improved type of education instruction was officially launched in 2010. These new state standards, practically titled Common Core, were declared to focus on developing a child’s skills in reasoning, problem solving, communication, and competition (Conrad, et al. 52). While the standards are professed to be an extremely practical and beneficial method of teaching today, there are issues which have recently surfaced and raised some concerns. The Common Core State Standards are emerging as the subjects of a provocative controversy in society today as they prompt discussion on global economic efficiency, nationwide academic standards, and the ultimate well-being of school-age children.

courses, summer school, advanced placement, special education, and other programs will be eliminated (Martinez, 2009). Not only do these cuts have an effect on K-12, they also encumber community colleges, state universities, and state colleges. At the college level tuition prices continue to climb, class availability declines, limits on new enrollments, and cutting educators. In January of 2011, Governor Jerry Brown of California proposed his budget cuts and state universities would be taking another cut of $1 billion, leaving alone elementary and secondary schools (Christie, 2011). While politicians stress education is important to improve the quality of one’s life, they also illustrate it is expendable.

School boards across the country have been struggling to fully fund art, music, and culture programs that without a doubt serve to round out the education of the country's youth. States such as California have faced major budget cuts. In 2008, California projected a shortcoming of $42 billion. (California Schools Girding for cuts under fiscal Plan) During a signing ceremony the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger stated, "During a down economy and facing an historic budget deficit we have to make some very difficult decisions..." He later warned local school districts that the cuts will impact the students (I’ll be back). California is not the only state who has faced budget cuts. When put up against struggling budgets brought

At a town hall meeting during the March 11th California Association of African-American Superintendents and Administrators (CAAASA) annual conference, panel members openly spoke about the transformation to the way California would fund education for the nine million public school students it serves. This panel discussion offered various stakeholder viewpoints around the Local Control Funding Formula and the Local Control Accountability Plan. Each member of the panel contributed honestly about LCFF and LCAP as it relates to the states vision of moving forward in trying to close the achievement gap for all students.

Oklahoma as of today is ranked 49th nationally in per-pupil expenditures and ranked 48th in teacher pay (Klein 2). Putting Oklahoma as one of the worst states to be educated in the United States. “Oklahoma is consistently ranked near the bottom for education funding and teacher pay” (“Investing In Education Is Key For Growth And Job Creation” 3). When there are state cuts that need to be made, the departments of education are one of the first that usually tend to suffer. Since the 2008 economic crisis, Oklahoma has continued to cut the budget for education; even though the economy has since then gotten better (Perry). Budget cuts in education affect all parts of the education process for the students. “Some school districts have ordered teacher layoffs and shorter sessions” (“Oklahoma Makes the Poor Poorer” par 4).Schools are now struggling to keep their heads above water. Each year from the budget cutting, schools have had to lay off teachers, cut entire programs, and have limited resources used to educate the students. Even the teachers’ retirement system is suffering, being one of the top poorly funded pension programs nationally (Ash par 3). Seeing as that the schools have to cut down classes and programs, administration has had no other choice than to increase class size, overwhelming teachers tremendously. “Oklahoma has 1,500 fewer classroom teachers and 40,000 more students since 2008-2009” (“Investing In Education Is Key For Growth

California has plummeted in Education Rankings. Our state is ranked, “9th Worst In The Nation” by SF Gate. Even worse, Wallethub ranked it 49th in safest schools in America. It’s obvious,us students deserve better.

California’s Master Plan for Higher Education was signed by Governor Pat Brown, and officially passed the law in 1960. Once established by California State into State legislature, it was a commitment from the state to develop the best higher education system for all educators especially the tuition will be free and every educator can have access to higher education. In 1950, there were only two institutions that offered higher education. Large population of students with less space in classroom size placed lots of college students automatically in waiting lists. As a result, the rate of graduation was declining. Therefore, each and every region in California started to construct more advanced institutions along with enlarge size of classrooms

Budget shortfalls have become a regular occurrence in the public education field. State, federal, and local aid is declining due to uncertainty in the American economy. School districts are forced to stretch every dollar while keeping up with state and federal demands. State and local taxpayers are also becoming increasingly frustrated with higher taxes while reports show little to no increase in students achievement. Political figures are hard pressed for school districts to justify expenditures with data for increased scoring on mandated standardized testing. With all the uncertainty on education, “school boards and administrators are faced with the hard task of making painful resource decisions, knowing that some aspects of schools will

School funding is a critical issue in our modern-day schools in Iowa, as everyday, school districts are constantly fighting with budgets just to make ends meet. School districts across the state are in this complicated predicament because the state of Iowa isn’t doing enough with their budget to ensure local school districts have sufficient funding. Rather than reduce schools’ spending, the state of Iowa needs to rework their budget so school districts don’t have to constantly worry about insufficient funding. Doing so will ultimately put student and teacher success first, helping create more efficient schools across the state. If Iowa’s school funding budget continues to fall, we will continue to lose highly qualified, putting students at a higher risk of failure. K-12 school funding

In today’s economic environment even the wealthiest states and districts are having to cut funding for education, while districts which were already teetering on the edge are now in an even worse position. In some schools children have to face not having enough books, paper for copies, severe overcrowding,

Growing up in the public education system there are things that are noticed as you go through the system. The government places value in children receiving education and continue into higher education but, through my own experience there wasn’t the right focus nor the funds to reflect this value. I only attended public schools as my family made very little in terms of money but, there was something in common with all my schools and classes; there was a lot of students and not enough teachers. This poses a problem; as the student population grows there should be more teachers to compensate but, due to the way that funds are distributed to schools there are difficulties in just keeping the school running the way it is now. This funding problem leads to a variety of obstacles; placing a burden on the school management to meet the federal standard, affecting how teaching is done and making it difficult for students to receive a well rounded education.

In addition, insufficient funding of schools along with quality teachers that are retiring are some of the problems we encounter in the education system. In some parts of the United States, there is a lack of adequate access to materials for reading and writing due to budget constraints. In Allen D. Kanner’s article, “Today’s Class Brought to You By…” he mentioned that with the baby boomers retiring, and a high turnover among new teachers, who are asked to teach subjects they are not properly trained for, are causing difficult classroom situations (280). Similarly, Governor Jerry Brown’s statement last January 11 pointed out that K-12 education has ‘borne the brunt’ of the state’s budget cuts with more than $18 billion in cuts over the last three years. This resulted in larger class sizes, programs are cut, and over 30,000 educators laid off. These teachers are very valuable in our society because they provide our youth with the knowledge and social experiences that they will use to better their future and the future of the entire world. As a student, I have suffered the consequences of triple digit fee increases and the lack of available classes offered. The high cost of education has put the burden not only on the students, and many of their parents, but educators, as

No Child Left Behind programs were a reasonable reaction to the appalling literacy and graduation rates, but since school funding was directly tied to students ' performance on federally administered tests, helping children develop sound reasoning skills took a back seat to teaching students how to specifically do well on high stakes tests by getting the correct answers. In an attempt to fix this problem Common Core was born, and with it more standardized testing as well. Much to our dismay, we can now see that the teaching methods used throughout Common Core Curricula are ineffective and harmful to the development of young students.

It has been too many years coming and can no longer be ignored. Teachers need support, they need training, they need to be paid their worth. Fast track programs and education reforms are band aids on a crucial United States problem. We need to stop worrying about hiring qualified teachers to fill vacancies and concentrate on retaining the already qualified teachers in the classrooms. Teacher education should be working on substantial ways to train teachers for today’s diverse learners. Using English language learners and socioeconomic status as excuses for “poor performing schools” and “low achieving students” is not the answer. All students can learn, all students have the right to be taught, and all students can meet high expectations. There is no reason America should be last to any country in education. Closer to home, Nevada should be the United Stated best kept secret with regards to education. The amount of money in our state could provide competitive teacher salaries and benefits, more schools to alleviate overcrowding problems, teacher professional development, and learning materials necessary for student’s success. Unfortunately, education is on the bottom of politicians and city officials lists.