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Title: Disadvantages from the Lack of Public School Funding


1
Disadvantages from the Lack of Public School
Funding
  • By
  • Brook Frew
  • Heather Knapp
  • Jessica Unghire

2
Introduction
  • Basic Information
  • Public schools are elementary and/or secondary
    institutions supported finically by the
    government
  • The money that government gives the schools are
    taxes each state resident pays yearly
  • The government gives funds to the public schools
    for their employees, activities, and materials
  • Every year the United States spends over 400
    billion on its public elementary and secondary
    schools
  • Committee for Economic Development

3
Disadvantages of School Funding
  • Main Aspects Forgotten in Funding
  • Teacher funding/salaries
  • Student activities
  • School materials

4
Teacher Salaries
  • Teachers are the most important investment
    schools make in terms of both money and student
    learning
  • Committee for Economic Development
  • Teachers are prominent to a childs education
  • salary may not reflect importance
  • All instructors and institutions rich/poor
  • Same education requirements and laws
  • Teachers - same responsibilities but different
    salaries
  • Salaries affected by
  • Single salary schedule
  • No Child Left Behind Act

5
Single Salary Schedule
  • A process in which teachers are paid
  • Years of experience
  • Education level
  • Income increases as years of experience increases
  • Disadvantages
  • Teacher on the higher end of schedule
  • Located in wealthier school districts
  • Poor public schools receive less qualified
    teachers

6
No Child Left Behind Act
  • Passed January 8, 2002 President Bush
  • Reauthorizes federal programs to advance the
    performance of U.S. primary and secondary schools
  • Increase standards of responsibility in
  • States
  • School districts
  • Schools
  • To improve performance on standardized test
  • Provides parents flexibility in choosing schools
  • The most sweeping reform of federal education
    policy in a generation
  • According to White House
  • Ability to shut down schools
  • Fail to reach desired scores on the standardized
    tests

7
How No Child Left Behind Act Affects Teachers
Salaries
  • Poor school districts lack efficient materials to
    prepare for the standardized tests
  • Teachers face the consequences such as
  • Salary decrease
  • Produce low score on standardized tests salary
    reduced
  • Termination
  • Large number of students receive an unacceptable
    scores
  • State can fire specific teacher(s)
  • State can shut down school completely teachers
    jobless
  • No rewards
  • Teacher receive are not awarded if students show
    improvement on the standardized test
  • Time and effort spent goes without recognition

8
School Materials
  • Lack of School Funding leads to
  • Shortage in school materials
  • Poor Building Structure
  • Oversize Classrooms
  • Lack of Technology

9
Poor Building Structure
  • Deteriorating
  • Needs renovation
  • Disadvantages
  • Difficult to teach and learn
  • Affects the quality of education
  • Prevents teachers and students from performing to
    full capabilities

10
Oversized Classrooms
  • Growth in population
  • Crowded classrooms
  • Crammed learning environment
  • Shortage in materials
  • Textbooks
  • Paper
  • Classroom supplies
  • Desks
  • Space

11
Lack of Technology
  • Insufficient supply of computers
  • Necessary in todays society
  • Disadvantages
  • Unable to develop computer skills early
  • Less educated with modern technology
  • Affects careers in future

12
School Activities
  • Need funding from outside sources in order to
    function
  • Underprivileged schools unable to participate in
    school activities due to lack in funding

13
Field Trips
  • Hands on experience for students outside the
    classroom
  • Memorable trips for students
  • Disadvantages
  • Schools unable to provide field trips due to
    costs
  • Students unable to attend due to personal
    finances

14
Cutbacks Due to Lack of Funding
  • Teachers salaries are often cutback
  • School sports teams are often cut
  • Equipment lost or not replaced
  • Uniforms lost or not replaced
  • Unable to make necessary renovations
  • Unable to update textbooks and computers

15
Conclusion
  • Disadvantages in Lack of School Funding
  • Teachers Salaries
  • Unqualified, less educated teachers
  • School Activities
  • Decrease in field trips, sports clubs,
    extracurricular activities
  • School Materials
  • Poor facilities, shortages in supplies,
    inadequate technology
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