Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Education – Question 6

Question for Randy L. In what ways and to what extent is the national government involved in public education?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The national government doesn’t get involved too much but does provide some resources through grants. There are or were programs that the national government has provided such as: school lunch program, which helped farmers out and based on the malnutrition that the military saw in many of its draftees who could not pass their physical exams in WWI. Other programs were GI Bill which made a whole generation of veterans that wanted to go to college more affordable after they left service. Another way that national government is involved in education is another program but this time it is for k-12 called No Child Left Behind Act which is federal aid to schools improving performance of all groups of students in standardized tests. These are just a few things they do but all together the national government only provides about 7% of educational spending.

Randy Lucas

Robert Botsch said...

Randy gave an excellent summary, but I would differ on whether everyone agrees that the feds are not involved "too much." Many feel that No Child Left Behind has too many requirements for testing (and not enough money to pay for the testing or help for schools that do not do well), so they would see federal involvement as too much. But other than that quibble, he gave a good answer!

Bob B