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When states run short of money they cut back on funds to community colleges, and when that happens it not only hurts students and their families, but it hurts communities. When a population is educated, it enjoys faster economic growth "and a more stable democracy, and benefits the poorest workers the most," Rampell explains.
I know that when states are short of funds, education seems to be the first place that gets cut. By reading the financial and business pages, I also learn that those cuts to colleges and universities reduce the classes in important subjects that society needs to have available; it cuts back on the ability of young people to progress in sciences and healthcare, in engineering. And for community colleges, technical skills that are normally taught -- like learning to fix digital technologies, learning to repair cars, learning to build highways and repair bridges -- are not taught anymore when the money is gone.
In the January 25 issue of Time magazine's section "Moneyland," the writer (Kayla Webley) explains that higher education funds have been cut back 8% over the past year. That means that $6 billion less is being awarded to colleges and universities than it was in previous years. Some 41 states reduced funding for community colleges and other places of higher learning because of the slow economic recovery. In fact, Webley writes that in 29 of those 41 states the budgets for education are smaller than they were in the 2006-2007 school funding years. In New Hampshire, funds to higher education were...
That is a massive cutback for young people trying to learn and become important parts of our society.
In conclusion, it occurs to me that we as a country are at a crossroads. We have politicians in Washington that are eager to cut back on funding for education while they allow big oil companies and other corporations to continue to receive massive tax breaks. How can we survive as a nation if we care more about giving the wealthiest Americans tax breaks -- and giving corporations enormous tax breaks -- than we do about making sure every generation of young people have a chance to learn in a college or university environment? We must replace the people in Congress who ignore educational needs. We as a democracy must use the power of the vote to keep education strong and to elect those representatives who truly understand how education improves our country. I am very concerned about the future of America. The money must be found to allow every young person to attend college who wants to attend.
Works Cited
Naison, Mark. "Public School Budget Cuts Herald End of Equality." LA Progressive.
Accessed May 15, 2012, from http://www.laprogressive.com. 2009.
National Education Association. "House Votes to Slash Education, Health Care, Food
Assistance. Accessed May 16, 2012, from http://www.nea.org.
Rampell, Catherine. "Where the Jobs Are, the Training May Not Be." The New York Times.
Accessed May 15, 2012, from http://www.nytimes.com.
Webley, Kayla. "Students Bear the Burden of State Higher Ed Cuts." Time Moneyland.
Accessed May 15, 2012, from http://moneyland.time.com.
Works Cited
Naison, Mark. "Public School Budget Cuts Herald End of Equality." LA Progressive.
Accessed May 15, 2012, from http://www.laprogressive.com. 2009.
National Education Association. "House Votes to Slash Education, Health Care, Food
Assistance. Accessed May 16, 2012, from http://www.nea.org.
Accessed May 15, 2012, from http://www.nytimes.com.
Accessed May 15, 2012, from http://moneyland.time.com.
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