Alabama Funds Toward Education

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This paper discusses the funding of schools for public education in the State of Alabama. It begins by discussing the problems plaguing the public schools in Alabama, including incompetent administrators, uninterested students, uninvolved parents and political agendas. It then goes on to enumerate the advantages of allocating more funding for education, both to the students directly and for the State as a whole.

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"Putting more funding into education also makes sense financially, because better education is linked to positive economic growth. When education works, the better educated person is able to get a higher paying job. Higher paying jobs lead to richer lifestyles, and the families that are had by people with higher education will spend more, putting more back into the economy. The children of well-educated people are more likely to also become well-educated, and likewise have higher incomes. "When the cycle works, families in the lower-class become lower-middle-class, then rise to the middle-middle-class, spending power expands and the economy grows." (Grimm) Without education, this cycle does not happen, and the benefits of economic growth for the individual and the society does not occur. The high rates of poverty throughout Alabama are often the cause of a lack of funding for the schools, however the poor economic state of Alabama is precisely why a larger investment must be made in education. Skeptics argue that education does not directly link to economic growth. "The fact that a good deal of education is needed in a society does not mean that yet more will be better (in growth terms) any more than the need for investment in a society means you can never over-invest." (Wolf)"

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