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President Obama: It’s Time to Put Our Money where our Mouths Are

Posted By: Paul Adams on October 25, 2010

In his weekly multimedia address, President Barak Obama drew the focus back to education funding. "Nothing would be more detrimental to our prospects for success than cutting back on education," he said -- arguing that would relegate the United States to second-place in the global economy.

"Instead of being shortsighted and shortchanging our kids, we should be doubling down on them," he said.

Complaints about the slow progress, if any, in the education reform process by many school districts, have let parents to vocalize their complaints at school board meetings, parent teacher conferences, in coffee shops and at play dates. The topic of our failing schools has been covered from every level of educator, politician and public figure and the conversation is split over the topic of education funding.

In the face of long-term unemployment and a slow-moving economy, budget cuts seem to be the first words out of any incumbent or opponent politician as November approaches, but as we all know, budget cuts point towards reducing education budgets just about every time.

The economy is going to continue to come back, if slowly, but the futures of our kids which depend on those education budgets are much more precarious. This is what the President was referring to. Now is the time to maintain, if not increase, the education budgets our school districts depend on to enhance their current offerings and make us globally competitive.

Schools need funding to grow, to hire qualified teachers and to offer the top options to their students to prepare them for college. If we cut back the budgets of our already overburdened school districts, we are removing the one real tool our country has at its disposal that can pull our country out of its downward spiral: our future generation’s potential.

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