Public Education

Public Education

Overview of the Social Phenomena

The severe disparity between the funding received by public schools across the country has led to public schools becoming a hub for the wealthy only. Whilst, there are schools out there that are in a state of deterioration with infrastructure so bad that the classrooms are overcrowded. This has an adverse effect on the economy and progress of the country in the long term. For the reason, that the exacerbating conditions due to funding issues lead to ever increasing drop-out rates from public schools (www.pbs.org, 2011).

Public education itself is an important part of democracy and civil society. For a civil society to perpetuate itself, it must educate its citizens in the principles of citizenship. The founders of America made public education a priority, and educators understand the central responsibility of schools to teach the next generation about how to act as virtuous citizens.

The Americans face numerous issues in public education. The stark contrast between the funding received by public schools in different cities, in independent states has led to quality education becoming affordable for the wealthy only. While, there are schools out there that are in a state of deterioration. This has an adverse effect on the progress of the country. The inadequacy and inequity in public school funds results in a high drop-out rate from public schools.

Research Question

The research question developed from the research on the much debated social phenomena of public education is as follows;

What are the challenges faced by US government in funding for public education?

How US government can overcome the challenges in funding for public education?

Literature Review

Originally, funding for public education on the international means their budget allocations for education, but our authorities said that America's public expenditure on education should include four parts: all levels of financial allocations for education, urban and rural education surtax, for the organization primary school funding, tax relief part of the school-run industries. The author believes that the diameter from the statistical point of view, we have slightly expanded international caliber. However, in recent years, followed by three sources of education funding is gradually shrinking. First, with the in-depth development of US market economy, the competitiveness of the school-run enterprises decreased significantly and reduced income. With the improvement of US's modern enterprise system, enterprises running social phenomenon gradually change, enterprise-run primary and secondary schools are gradually handed over to the Government Management.

China, India and other emerging countries in the field of public education has been better than the United States, especially in the key disciplines of mathematics and science. This is the catch-words of U.S. President Barack Obama. Obama has a deep sense of crisis on the U.S. public education: the future of the United States is at a "critical juncture," the future of the U.S. economy and employment will depend on the immediate situation of education. Almost all important Obama speech, he stressed the need to reform the public education system.

Obama in his State of the Union address last year mentioned ...