When States Cut Education Funding, Parents Pay the Price
The Occupy Education movement is in full swing across the country, with protestors holding walkouts and sit-ins at public colleges and universities, and demanding funding be restored from preschool through graduate school.
The budget cuts have been particularly deep in California, where students are worried about the potential long-term damage to the extensive network of public colleges and universities, as well as the short-term effect on their own opportunities. While higher education is taking center stage in the protests, there's little question that California's budget crisis has had a brutal impact on school funding at all levels.
My sister's family lives in a bucolic Northern California neighborhood, replete with biking trails and an extensive network of parks and public libraries. Despite such evidence of a relatively solvent and engaged community, the
The budget cuts have been particularly deep in California, where students are worried about the potential long-term damage to the extensive network of public colleges and universities, as well as the short-term effect on their own opportunities. While higher education is taking center stage in the protests, there's little question that California's budget crisis has had a brutal impact on school funding at all levels.
My sister's family lives in a bucolic Northern California neighborhood, replete with biking trails and an extensive network of parks and public libraries. Despite such evidence of a relatively solvent and engaged community, the
