Sequester Cuts Are Dumb, Education Cuts Are Dumber
Cuts to government spending like the now-reviled “sequester” are not only “dumb” as my colleague Robert Borosage explained this week. They are literally making us dumber.
What’s dumb is to cut money for air traffic controllers and endanger airline passengers and relegate them to long waits for delayed flights.
What’s even dumber is to cut funding to Head Start and other education programs that ensure the nation’s children have learning opportunities that vastly improve their futures and our national prosperity.
Unfortunately, cuts to essential funds for educating our children aren’t limited to the dreaded sequester. The assault on spending is pervasive in all aspects of education budgeting at every level of government. Even worse, spending cuts are aimed at the very areas where we should be investing the most.
If you’re of the opinion that “money doesn’t matter” in relation to the quality of education, then you’re horribly misinformed. Indeed, anyone advocating for better education in America should put the funding cuts at the top of their list of policy mandates to protest against.
Stupid Sequester
Anyone advocating for good schools for all kids should be particularly alarmed at the damage being done by cuts to spending resulting from imposed across-the-board budget cuts called “sequestration.”
Sequester cuts are especially damaging to schoolchildren who are the most vulnerable and critically in need of government funding.
As Think Progress and other news outlets reported, the sequestration resulted in