{"id":2297,"date":"2019-06-19T18:15:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T18:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2024-10-15T22:02:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T22:02:12","slug":"taxpayers-should-question-the-k-12-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/2019\/06\/19\/taxpayers-should-question-the-k-12-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxpayers Should Question the K-12 System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The K-12 education system requests more money from state budgets\nevery year. Yet student performance has flatlined. Commenting on the issue in\nan article on Edweek.org entitled, \u201cPublic\nTorn Between Support for School Spending and Actually Paying the Tab<\/a>,\u201d the author notes that  \u201cK-12 spending in recent years has eaten up a\nlarger and larger share of states\u2019 tax revenue. On average, K-12 spending takes\nup more than a quarter of states\u2019 budgets. And while recent polls show swelling\nsupport for more money going toward schools, there remains sentiment among the\ngeneral public that taxes are too high\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the question regarding school funding is \u201chow to do it in a\nfair, equitable, and effective way that won\u2019t create a backlash among business\nleaders and taxpayers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, taxpayers want to fund the K-12 system as an investment\nin future generations. However, throwing money at an antiquated system will\nsimply provide poor results. It\u2019s no wonder why taxpayers are reluctant to foot\nthe bill on education. As American\nCenter for Transforming Education<\/a> program chair Don Nielsen states in his\nbook Every\nSchool<\/em><\/a>,\u201cour education\nsystem is stuck in time, training students for a world that no longer exists.\nAbsent profound change to our schools, adults will keep piling up on life\u2019s\nsidelines, jeopardizing the survival of civil society. While not preordained,\nthis is where America is headed.\u201d To make real progress we must fundamentally\ntransform the public education system.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, before we continue to \u201cride the wave of perceived public\nsupport for education to push local tax levies and bond issues,\u201d we should be\nworking to fix the system. This must start with a state that is courageous\nenough to take the task head on by  changing state laws. As Nielsen rightfully\nasserts, \u201cunless and until the system is changed, we should not put large\namounts of new money into the existing, outdated and obsolete system. What is\nneeded is a new system.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The K-12 education system requests more money from state budgets every year. Yet student performance has flatlined. Commenting on the issue in an article on Edweek.org entitled, \u201cPublic Torn Between Support for School Spending and Actually Paying the Tab,\u201d the author notes that  \u201cK-12 spending in recent years has eaten up a larger and larger share of states\u2019 tax revenue. On average, K-12 spending takes up more than a quarter of states\u2019 budgets. And while recent polls show swelling support for more money going toward schools, there remains sentiment among the general public that taxes are too high\u201d So the question regarding school funding is \u201chow to do it in a fair, equitable, and effective way that won\u2019t create a Read More ›<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":343,"featured_media":2298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1062],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-policy"],"acf":[],"author_names":["Bailey Takacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2297"}],"wp:action-assign-author":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}