EVAN WOOD

Funding
The Education
System
English Composition 1001
THE GREAT
Foreclosure rates saw a significant spike in 2006
and 2007, resulting in a growing bubble in the

RECESSION
housing market. When this bubble popped,
triggering the most devastating effects of the
Great Recession of 2008, many citizens of the
2008 United States lost jobs.
When people lose jobs, they lose income. When
people lose income, they lose purchasing power.
States saw a huge loss in revenue collected from
not only income tax but also sales tax as a direct
result of this recession.
EFFECTS ON THE
EDUCATION SYSTEM

STATES FUND THE GREAT STATES CAN NO THE MODERN

PUBLIC RECESSION LONGER FUND EDUCATION
EDUCATION States lose income and sales EDUCATION SYSTEM
Primarily through revenue tax revenue States make major cuts to With a still wound still
from income and sales taxes public schools because of bleeding a decade later,
the lack of revenue most schools have barely
coped with the intense cuts
they've faced.
 HOW HAVE SCHOOLS
COPED?
MAJOR CHANGES OVER THE LAST DECADE

Higher Student / Teacher Increased Endorsement and Decreased Focus on

Ratio and Lower Teacher Practice of Standardized Humanities and
Income
Testing Supplemental Learning
 What's Going On?
CLASSROOM TEACHER PAY HUMANITIES TESTING

Most classrooms Fewer teachers are Many schools have cut To cope with the
consist of thirty to employed by schools back on or completely inability to give
forty students and as they have limited removed their students individual
usually have one budget to pay structures for teaching attention and hold
teacher. With this employees, and most students about art, them accountable in a
structure, many teachers are now music, and physical case by case basis,
students are starved of subject to significantly health. Many most schools use
the individual attention lower salaries and lack elementary schools standardized tests to
they need to properly the resources to teach now lack physical represent each human
learn. ever growing education and arts being with a single
classrooms. classes. numerical score for
accountability
MOVING
ELIMINATE STANDARDIZED TESTING
Creating a new system, not dependent on shallow

FORWARD numerical representation of a student's learning for

accountability, will allow students to flourish more in
the classroom

INCREASING SCHOOL FUNDING

Allowing school employees to have more resources at
their disposal benefits both said employees and their
students and creates a system that asks less financial
investment of the students

RESTRUCTURE THE CLASSROOM

Bringing down the student-teacher ratio, effectively
putting more teachers in classrooms and fewer
students, allows more individual attention and
interaction to the benefit of the student.