Where’s the Money Going? Changes in the Level and Composition of Education Spending, 1991-96

The share of moeny on education is decreasing in large amounts. Education spending amounts grew from 17.8% in 1991 up to 19% in 1996 .
Also school's lunch and breakfast programs grew from 3.3% in 1991 to a total of 4.8%  in 1996.
http://www.epi.org/publication/books_wheremoneyes/

Education Quotes

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

-Horace Mann

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Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

-Ernest Dimnet

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
 ~Sydney J. Harris

February 14, 2011 Governor's Update : Education Reform & Job Growth

 About 97 percent of the teachers who get to three years and one day get tenure. They also think that the charter schools are a big piece of tenure. They also think that if other schools are like charter schools then they may work better.

Education

A lot of parents just don't care about their children's education 

Torture Discussion

Today before the discussion I was against torture and nothing could change my mind. After the fact of hearing other peoples thoughts it really makes me think about it. Just like Mr. Palo said, what if that detainee is the only person who know the information about a bomb..do you torture them to get the information. I went home thinking about this and I think I am still pretty sure that I would not want to torture somebody, because you never know if the information is true. Yes, they never let the detainee go, but still what good does that do?

Someone in the class also said that we must torture so that others will fear us. When you think about this why is that the only way to make somebody fear us? I believe that we use to be a country people would look up to, because we are so great, but now look at what we are doing. We are putting ourselves as low as all the other countries doing the same thing. Just because we do not torture on our soil why does that make everything better?  

Mancow Gets Waterboarded: Admits It's Torture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOStoGd5GZw

Video: Kids in 9/11 classroom recall president's interrupted visit

The kids from the classroom talk about how the 9/11 attack effected them till this day. They also talk about why they think the President stayed a few moments after he received the news about the second tower being hit.http://news.yahoo.com/video-kids-in-9-11-classroom-recall-president-s-interrupted-visit.html

Mosque Discussion-9/2/11

I was on the side against the Mosque being built. I have nothing against Muslims or anything it’s just the fact that they want to build it so close to Ground Zero. There is one already close and were not making them take it down, so why build another even closer. I believe they knew what they were getting themselves into and they knew how many people were going to be against their decision. This discussion did not in fact change my mind about this because no matter what it is going to be disrespectful. I did learn that there are more people for the Mosque and also why they are. I do understand their point of view but i still don’t see a point in building it so close to where the Muslims bombed us.

Lower Manhattan Mosque Funding

A Imam is leading the building of the Mosque. And questions that are being put out are; where are they getting the money to build a $100 million Mosque? They also say that is one of the reasons New Yorker's are protesting is because of finance reasons. The Imam has already bought the property and is going to have to buy the land next to it as well. 70% of the New Yorker's are all asking the same question;  "where did they get the money from?" Also there are over 100 Mosque in New York City.http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/manhattan/lower-manhattan-mosque-funding

Mosque Near Ground Zero?

Some are starting to say that the Mosque that might go is considered a "house of evil". There was a vote taken and 29 to 1 were against the Mosque going up. Many also believe that it is disrespectful towards the 9/11 victims.http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/mosque-ground-10753844