Wednesday, June 19, 2013

The Democracy of Education: Week 4

The Democracy of Education: Week 4: Education; Incluseive, Exclusive, Growing Pains This Week's R&R is a "mock" Quiz question. Please be sure to post your ...

All the candidates were concerned about the education in our schools.  Weiner stated that if we have available space in the schools, it would be more useful to open up a chemistry lab, or a gym instead of a charter school, unless the competition for the space be more egalitarian.  Bill de Blasio would like to invest funding in early childhood and afterschool programs by taxing the wealthy and the revenue could be used to reduce class sizes.  Bill Thompson is against closing our schools and thinks that money can be used for teachers development instead.  John Liu also thinks that if we tax the wealthy, we could create a better economy that will allow more money for education.
The shortcomings to the arguments are would the people be willing to be taxed more?

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