As you may know, there has been massive cuts in public education. A budget of $27.15 billion dollars was passed by the Pennsylvania State legislature and was sighned into a law. These budget cuts are mainly focusing on education. The Pennsylvania State Educational Association estimates that 3,000 teachers statewide are being laid off and another 2,000 positions are not being filled. These cuts are targeting early childhood education as well. The state has cut funding for full-day kindergarten from $260 million to $100 million. Many school districts are being forced to close pre-school centers and cut kindergarten down for a half a day. This is becoming a huge worry to me since I am going to school to become a teacher. Because of these statewide cuts, this will mean larger size classes, fewer teacher's aides, and cuts in specific programs. In many school districts, students will have to pay for an extracurricular activity such as sports. School districts are also cutting back on classes you can take to learn a foreign language,art, or music. This is a huge deal to many school districts because you can't just go to school and learn about certain subjects. There are some students who enjoy art class or music and the Education Department is taking all of that away from them. Parents should also be worried as they are getting laid off of there jobs. If this continues to take place, many school districts will have to merge with another school since they won't be able to keep up with the payments.
The govenor is cutting certain school programs that give money to certain schools. A way of thinking about how this works is if an employer increases a worker's salary, but takes away health care benifits, then the woker is getting less compensation. These health care benifits end up costing the worker more to replace than the raise he recieved. This seems to be a big issue today. With this said, to view a few websites that I found about this topic,click here!
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