Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Education

Do you think that the government should have control over our national education system, or should each state and local government have control over their own education system? Some of the current Presidential candidates have very different ideas about this issue, and we want to know what you think. Please comment after you have read some of the information on our page.
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I think education is essential to the preservation of our democracy. It's success lies in the hands of all levels of government as well as individual citizens.

November 4, 2008 at 4:27 AM
2008 Government and Election Blog said...
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November 12, 2008 at 5:31 PM
2008 Government and Election Blog said...

I think that the government should have some amount of power in the school systems and some standards should be set but I am totally against things like No Child Left Behind because that thing was underfunded and had more holes in it than a piece of swiss cheese. It also controlled a lot of the schools funding and that is extremely unfair. There should be some tests like that but they should be used to help improve failing schools, not cut their funding and make their situation even worse. The amount of funds a school gets should be determined by the schools submitting a request for a certain amount of money and if it is reasonable the state should grant it because the schools would know better than they would.

T.S.

November 12, 2008 at 7:28 PM

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