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"America First" Really Means Something! "You served to protect our Nation, Now join us to protect our Nation's future!"
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Education 1. Funding of $150 Billion to our states for public education budgets, to be provided from the funds we now send overseas to provide education to third world nations. (Breaks down to $3 Billion per state) 2. To set a standard of Public School education for all states that would be met to continue federal funding. 3. To return discipline and respect back into the schools with appropriate punishment and no suspensions. 4. To provide less books and more educational tools for every student. 5. To equal public school teachers pay with those of corporate and government trainers. 6. To provide the proper and up to date equipment for teachers to use in the classroom.
Less Books, More Education! Education of our youth is probably the most important issue for our nation right after national security. And if you can see the bigger picture, education insures our future national security. There are many school districts in our country that have a policy of books not to be taken home over weekends or holiday breaks. The reason; damage or loss of books become too expensive to repair or replace. Most parents and students do not realize the cost of books and the cost to maintain the books. The largest movement of books within a school district is during the summer and winter breaks. Each district has its own book storage facility with a staff proportional to the number of students in that district. The books are counted and numbered, boxed up and brought to the schools and classrooms that will use the books. They also count and record the books that have to go back into storage. The storage facility maintains vehicles to haul the books, they have buildings, staff in those buildings with computers, large printers for the invoices that go to each individual teacher in every school for the books they order and staff that also maintains the records of all these transaction during the school year. Buildings where books are stored are air conditioned and maintained for humidity every day of the year. A good portion of the school budget goes towards the purchase, maintenance and transportation of these tomes. If you believe that book storage centers are not big... remember the seven story book depository in Dallas, Texas? It was an entire city block square, and it was only for that county school district. Of course now it is a museum and they they have moved into larger quarters to house their school books. So what is the solution? Lap Top computers! Even the initial cost will be less than what is the current budget for books. A top of the line laptop would be under $500 when you consider that you will be ordering 1,000 at a time.
And to show you that it is possible to make change for the better... TUCSON, Ariz. (July 11, 2005) - A high school in Vail will become the state's first all-wireless, all-laptop public school this fall. The 350 students at the school will not have traditional textbooks. Instead, they will use electronic and online articles as part of more traditional teacher lesson plans. Vail Unified School District's decision to go with an all-electronic school is rare, experts say. Often, cost, insecurity, ignorance and institutional constraints prevent schools from making the leap away from paper. ''The efforts are very sporadic,'' said Mark Schneiderman, director of education policy for the Software and Information Industry Association. ''A minority of communities are doing a good or very good job, but a large number are just not there on a number of levels.'' Calvin Baker, superintendent of Vail Unified School District, said the move to electronic materials gets teachers away from the habit of simply marching through a textbook each year. He noted that the AIMS test now makes the state standards the curriculum, not textbooks. Arizona students will soon need to pass Arizona's Instrument to Measure Standards to graduate from high school. But the move to laptops is not cheap. The laptops cost $850 each, and the district will hand them to 350 students for the entire year. The fast-growing district hopes to have 750 students at the high school eventually. A set of textbooks runs about $500 to $600, Baker said. It's not clear how the change to laptops will work, he conceded. ''I'm sure there are going to be some adjustments. But we visited other schools using laptops. And at the schools with laptops, students were just more engaged than at non-laptop schools,'' he said.
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