Committee to examine education funding News Article

Committee to examine education funding
News Article
This explains the state Board of Education is planning on meeting to look over the funding. The potential members that may plan to attend this meeting were not specified but can be assumed to be chairmen of the state Education Committee as well as representatives from different groups that have testified before the board about school funding changes. They seem to be all over the place at the moment. It seems to be a stressful time where not many question can be answer but many are being brought up. Fleishmann said “It’s a bit of a crazy quilt that we have right now, and we should have a better designed system… What makes sense is having dollars follow students so the state doesn’t end up with too many situations here it is paying more than once for the education of one child,” (Fleishmann). He is explaining that they are working to create a better system that will take the money that is being put into the education program and make it an investment rather then an temporary fix. I agree that the current way that money is being used is not progressive and is only wasting time. It is important that there are people working to make a change in the system before it is too late.
The idea to follow the new “money follows the child,” (Benton) proposal was not acted upon. This was going to be used to replace the current system of pupil grants. The legislature is now reviewing the new idea would end up coasting the state about $ 5 million in the next fiscal year. one of the reasons the idea was emplaced was to proved a “Reduced role of local property taxes in education funding.” (Benton). I can understand why people would want this in a time of rescission but I don’t know if it is realistic. I think it is great that people are taking the current situation seriously but change is generally a costly affair. It is a bold move to change a system but could end up benefiting the students greatly. I feel Benton shared the information about the possible change of school funding in a very interesting fashion.

"Committee to examine education funding." New Haven Register (New Haven, CT). (Feb 4, 2010): NA. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. Deerfield High School. 11 Feb. 2010 .