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Stay Involved...Stay Active
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February 2006
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"Education costs money, but then so does
ignorance."
Sir Moser Claus, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford
(b. 1922)
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School funding falling behind
Texas only state that reduced spending in 2004-05
According to the National Education Association, per
pupil expendatures fell by 1 percent from the 2003-
2004 school year.
In an article by JANET ELLIOTT, staff writer for the
Houston Chronicle's Austin Bureau, she states that
the state's share of education costs hit a new low of
35 percent, with local and federal funds making up
the balance, according to the study by the NEA, a
national teachers' union.
Find where Texas ranks
Read more...
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U.S. Science Education -- the World’s Best
260 Nobel Prizes in Science
The United States leads the world in technology,
scientific research and the quality of its scientists
because U.S. science education is the worlds best.
From 1951 to 2005 Americans have won 195 or 56%
of the 350 Nobel Prizes awarded in Medicine, Physics
and Chemistry. In October 2005 the Americans were
awarded four of the eight Nobel Prizes for science
achievement. The country of citizenship of Nobel
Prize winners in 2005 is; Medicine: Australia 2,
Physics: American 2, Germany 1, Chemistry:
American 2, France 1
The United States is the uncontested leader of the
world in scientific research in respect to published
accomplishments, Nobel Prizes, volume of research
and expenditures on scientific research. The United
States is the leader of the world in technology and
the unchallenged leader of the world in the global
economy. The United States dominates the world
because of its educational systems, including K-12
public education that produces the most highly
educated, productive and successful workforce in
the world.
Read more...
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Myths about Texas Public Schools
The Myth: Texas has dedicated $7.1 billion
new dollars to education between 1999 and
2004. That should be more than enough additional
funding to support schools.
The Facts: Texas schools undertake a
substantial
obligation to educate 4.2 million
students. In 2002-03, Texas school districts
spent
$36 billion to educate these 4.2 million
students. After adjusting for enrollment increases
(about $4 billion was needed between
1999 and 2004 just to fund new students), per-pupil
education support grew at an annual
rate of 3.9 percent between 1999 and 2004. The
additional money represented by the 3.9
percent was used to cover the higher cost of health
and other insurance, pay for increased
utility costs, and raise salaries. Districts also
used
these funds for more special
instructional programs and support services to a
student population that includes
increasing numbers of limited English proficient and
economically disadvantaged
students.
Over 90 percent of the $7.1 billion new dollars came
from local property taxes, not state
aid. In fact, the state’s share of school funding has
been slipping for the past 12 years. In
1990-91, the state share was 47 percent. By 2002-
03 it was 39.7 percent. In 2004-05, the state share
of school funding was estimated to
be 36.3 percent.
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Friends and Lewisville ISD honor Christa McAuliffe
20 years after the Challenger tragedy...
Friends of Texas Public Schools and Lewisville ISD
honored public education on Friday, Jan. 28 by
remembering Christa McAuliffe, a science teacher
who was killed in the 1986 explosion of the space
shuttle Challenger.
Friends presented Christa McAuliffe Elementary
School with a seven-foot-tall monument that
featured one of the 200 index-card-sized flags of
Learning and Liberty that Ms. McAuliffe took with her
on the Challenger.
The National School Public Relations Association
created the Flag of Learning and Liberty to
symbolize the link between public education and a
strong, free nation.
In recent years the Flag has been presented to
the Education Ministry in Japan, carried aboard the
Space Shuttle Challenger, raised over every state
capital, featured in a White House ceremony, and
covered in the news media throughout the nation.
Read more in the Dallas Morning News...
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