Tuesday, October 4, 2011

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/

Monday, October 3, 2011

Education Quotes

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

-Horace Mann

Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_education.html#ixzz1ZjqYDHif

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

Sunday, October 2, 2011

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.