Prestige money driving wedge between schools
As the recession has faded, schools in poor schools are often in a tough position because they can’t raise enough money to cover the tuition costs for teachers and other students and have no choice but to reduce classes.
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Teachers have been given new jobs but, for many schools, the pay and benefits are minimal, said Mike Rifkowitz, director of the education research organization Higher Education Review.
“For low-performing schools it’s going to be even tougher to keep students in the classroom,” he said.
The Education Department is planning to reduce federal funding for school funding and it’s uncertain when that will happen.
State and local officials have pushed the Obama administration for at least $300 million per year in additional funding through 2017 to meet future enrollment growth. But the president has not included the $300 million in the budget.
“That’s the same number in a couple of years,” he said. “That’s why it’s such an issue. The administrationjarvees.com doesn’t even seem to have acknowledged the shortfall.”
There has been a decline in high school attendance by students between the ages of 9 and 12, which has put pressure on high schools. According to a report this month from the National Center for Education Statistics, the U.S. high school graduation rate hit an all time low of 73.3 percent in 2012.
“There are high school graduates now who are more likely than the kids before them to graduate the second decade of a four-year diploma at the low endjarvees.com of our nation’s ability to meet the needs of its current population,” said Michelle Goldberg, director of the National Center for Education Statistics.
The increase in college and graduate school students also can help the economy but has come at a cost, said John Raskin, senior education analyst at the nonpartisan CIRCLE Group.
“It’s not a question of making college-level education affordable to everybody but the cost of doing so. There are students, particularly high school students, who are going to make a lot more money to finance going to college,” he said.
But the cost of higher education has to be balanced against what students and families have to pay for living expenses.
The report notes that many states, including Virginia, Arizona and Maine, have raised tuition to address this challenge.
The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities said it ha