"Funding Cliff"

As I was searching through the web I came up this article that was written last month. After reading Jonathan Kozol’s book, The Shame of a Nation: the restoration of apartheid schooling in America, I have been more aware about the effects of economic distress in schools. It is sad to hear and see what is happening in low Socio-Economic Status (SES) schools and how the education of the children is affected by budget cuts, low qualified teachers and lack of resources. After reading this article I was dumbfounded to see that many of the nation’s schools will no longer have federal money to spend since most of them maximized the budget given to them. This only makes me wonder what will happen to the American school system. As of right now we see that poor funding tends to hurt the education that student receive, which unfortunately affect many low SES schools, so what will happen to the schools who are hanging off the "funding cliff?" What can we do as future educators?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/education/08educ.html