Education Improvements and Funding

      In a blog published October 3, 2014, in the The Daily Texan by Amanda Voeller titled, "When discussing education improvements, emphasize more than just funding." Seeing how public education seems to be one of the issues that is being discussed amongst Texas candidates in their races; Amanda thinks legislators should balance their focus on methods to improve education without having to spend more money.

Proposed methods to improve education consists of:
  
Parents prioritizing their involvement in their children's schools leading the students to perform better, but because a lot of  these parents are working parents and cannot devote a large amount of time to their children's school activities, schools should do everything possible to work with parents to develop flexible ways that would allow those parents to be more involved. She also goes on by suggesting teachers should have a larger role in determining how the state allocates its education budget because no one knows better than what is needed, than a teacher. Based on her findings, two of the eleven members of the Texas House Public Education Committee have been teachers.

     After reading this short blog, I have to agree with Amanda on the methods that she proposed to reduce funding costs for education. Although funding education is great, and I'm all for providing children with higher education; however, placing emphasize on what is exactly needed for that child to excel is more important. Amanda made a good point when she suggested that parents need to prioritize their time by being more involved with their children's school, and by doing this legislature should work with the schools to  provide ways parents can participate in their children's school and class events. I too agree with the writer when she suggest that more teachers need to have more input on decisions pertaining to school board needs. Teachers are more aware of what is needed, than someone who has NEVER worked a education professional.

As for this blog, the writer did a good job in proposing some methods she believes that will reduce the cost of education, by placing more responsibility in the hands of those who know vs. those who are just trying to make a legal decision.