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"Youth are the future" a simple saying that has rang true and been repeated throughout the generations. If this is believed to be true then why are we underfunding our future? Reports, on educational funding, consistently reveal how uneven and unfair public school funding is throughout states across the country. While this underfunding of states does need to be addressed as a whole the easiest way to to see a change is to do so on a state level. Connecticut needs to enact a fair and evenhanded…

arts, including dance, into the broader curriculum is not new but appears to be achieving a stronger foothold in public schools today. Dance is an artistic form of expression where bodily activities are used to convey any inner thoughts and feelings, emphasize creativity, solve problems, express emotions and more (Dimondstein 5). Studies show that today there is a small percentage of public schools, both elementary and secondary, that offer any instruction in dance. Instead, teachers…

by the financial and internal process perspective at the same level. The last of the scorecard but not least, is the Employee Learning and Growth which is essential to achieve the organisational goal. 2.5 How the Public Sector Scorecard works? Like the Balanced Scorecard, the Public Sector Scorecard (PSS) is a flexible framework, adaptable to the needs of the organisation. “It has a high degree of involvement from service users and other stakeholders and typically it will involve the ten…

We, as pupils of the Math, Science, and Arts Academy, deserve basic rights as we are transferring from young adults to adults soon. Being in a public school, a student should always be happy to be able to go to school, but yet they aren’t because of the amount of stress caused from the Department of Education and the state of Louisiana due to End of the Year Courses, Common Core, SMI,SRI, Benchmark and ACT. As young adults, having fun is the number one thing that makes life better, but with…

Educating the public on rape is a big step in the right direction. Public education gives community members more awareness of issues relating to sexual violence. Information in workshops may include: Sexual assault statistics, Legal right of victims, resources for victims, and tools and techniques…

While movement of people, food and manufactured goods do have negative impact on public health however it will be a negative approach to take steps to reduce the movement of people, flow of manufactured goods and movement of food. Let’s start with the movement of people. This is the single most critical thing that accounts for human growth and development. United States of America is the world super power and more importantly world’s hub for soft power. It has best brains in engineering,…

Public schools in America provide opportunities for all the children in the United States, and people from all over the world come here for a better education, but it’s undeniable the school system has flaws. Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), is a survey used to rank 15 year olds from the 64 participating countries worldwide. In the most recent data (conducted in 2012) Shanghai, China had the #1 scores in mathematics, reading, and science and on the contrary the United…

(Goroneau, 2012). This statistic is terrifying because it indicates that almost 9 out of 10 students could expect to experience being victims to bullying which means that nearly all students could expect to be bullied. From my personal experience in public schools, I was a victim to at least one bullying incident per year from the…

upcoming year. Usually Sally has to wear her older sister’s worn-out clothing and reuse her back pack. This year, Sally’s school is requiring her to purchase uniforms before the school year begins. While many believe uniforms would be great change for public schools, others believe uniforms would only burden families financially. Uniforms provide students a sense of equality. A great advantage for all students is the ability to attend schools without being labeled based on their…

else that allows us to be creative and imaginative. Art education, beginning at a young age and continuing throughout twelve years of school can be extremely beneficial to the educational process. Unfortunately, art education is being cut from our public schools, and we need to make art classes mandatory for…