The decreased state funding for public higher institutions was sad to read about because the “American way” includes education and with the lack of funding education will draw bigger gaps between the haves and the have nots which it has already been doing from day one. I say this because higher education is already expensive and with the steady increased lack of funding everything always has to come out of pocket for potential college attendees,which I believe is not fair. I understand the state of the economy and the problems that the government has with allocating funding but every minute all the cuts are towards education but we still want our students to be highly competitive with college educations that for many people are to expensive to afford.
I did not know actually that alot of the funding for public higher education comes from the state. I thought everything was controlled by the federal government, though I still do not understand the major differences between the governments and their types of funding, I can definitely understand the concept of budget cut and reduced funding. In one of the articles it discussed the idea that because of the heavy demands for medicaid from the government the cuts could be a result of this. If everything else were getting cut as well I could really understand that but everytime there is a money shortage it always seems to come from education on all levels. They increase tuition for college students and still want everyone to be happy in a sense that it wasn’t worse, I dont really understand what is going on with the state government or the federal government for that matter because everything just seems very disorganized. Then they all complain about accountability but every level does not want to take responsibility for what they are doing and this argument will continue to progress as tuition increases and eventually becomes so high that only the rich majority will be able to go to college.
Is the alternative to budget cuts in education cutting the funding for certain government insurances like medicare and medicaid? What other countries can American look to if any for ideas about how to wisely allocate money instead of always cutting education?
