This from the Answer Sheet:
Failure of the congressional supercommittee tasked with reducing the federal deficit by at least $1.2 trillion could lead to across-the-board budget cuts, which would have a serious impact on already-distressed public education funding.
The Congressional Budget Office has projected what could happen to public education if the trigger is pulled and across-the-board cuts kick in in January 2013. There are new reports that the supercommittee is getting ready to admit that its Republican and Democratic members couldn’t compromise after several months of negotiations — this after Congress itself couldn’t reach an agreement...
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At this rate, public education is going to become the equivalent of academic medicaid with those citizens who have resources spending them on private schools or even paying for "extra" services like transportation, high level courses and electives, etc and the have nots getting a basic 3 R's
Don't see how this is going to sustain a global competativeness or even the ability to be consumers much less producers. Well at least our state will have $168 million assessment system in place to prove it and just forget about worrying about gaps.
Maybe they'll privatize school busing and it'll cost your daughter an extra buck to carry on her Hello Kitty book bag.
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