senate Bill S. 325
Piloting Year-Round Education in Low-Income Schools
Argument in favor
Year-round education keeps children out of trouble and has proven to be more successful than traditional schedules. Teachers who support year-round education should be paid extra.
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10/25/2015
Funding a pilot program that improved test scores by 25% sounds good, mandating that program would be over stepping the government's bounds.
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12/05/2015
This is a pilot program, and there is no harm in trying a new program. Low-income students disproportionately get into more trouble with the law and this would be a great way to combat that by keeping them more occupied and allow teachers to spread out curriculum and allow children to LEARN not retain and spit out.
07/03/2015
It probably is true that the idea of summer recess was related to no air conditioning and harvest time. To spread out the same number of hours instruction to eliminate most of the summer recess might reduce the crime rate. As far as proportional increase to salaries, don't press your luck. Teachers salaries have outstripped most other professions requiring equivalent preparation even ignoring the abbreviated months they spend on the job annually.
Argument opposed
The U.S. needs to improve the quality of primary education before the number of days kids spend in school is extended. Lacks specifics on who is in charge of issuing grants.
11/06/2015
This is a State/Local issue. Yet having year round schooling will be detrimental to the childhood of adolescent Americans. Also States with a strong agrarian culture, rely heavily on family labor to run ones farm. Which digresses back to the point of a State/Local decision.
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06/21/2015
Stay out of our schools!! Leave these decisions to State and local Government.
Funding a pilot program that improved test scores by 25% sounds good, mandating that program would be over stepping the government's bounds.
This is a State/Local issue. Yet having year round schooling will be detrimental to the childhood of adolescent Americans. Also States with a strong agrarian culture, rely heavily on family labor to run ones farm. Which digresses back to the point of a State/Local decision.
Stay out of our schools!! Leave these decisions to State and local Government.
Get the federal government OUT OF EDUCATION! I'm tired of the government using our public schools as indoctrination centers and Petri dishes for their social engineering agendas! Education policy should be up to the states.
This is a pilot program, and there is no harm in trying a new program. Low-income students disproportionately get into more trouble with the law and this would be a great way to combat that by keeping them more occupied and allow teachers to spread out curriculum and allow children to LEARN not retain and spit out.
This bill screams NOT A FEDERAL PREROGATIVE. Education is a state issue, period.
After the mess DOE has caused with CommonCore. Hell No. More like RottenCore.
The Federal government needs to get out of the education business and let the states handle the programs
Why is this focused on only low-income neighborhoods? If you invest in schools in these neighborhoods, school wouldn't have to be year-round in order for them to be able to compete.
We should be getting the federal government OUT of education, not figuring out ways to implement MORE plans.
I've always been a proponent to year-round schools. But I object that they should be mandated for low-income. They should be man-dated for everyone.
1. Education is a function of the states. 2. Why low income neighborhoods? Why not everywhere? The summer vacation was in place so kids could work on the family farms. That ship sailed decades ago.
It probably is true that the idea of summer recess was related to no air conditioning and harvest time. To spread out the same number of hours instruction to eliminate most of the summer recess might reduce the crime rate. As far as proportional increase to salaries, don't press your luck. Teachers salaries have outstripped most other professions requiring equivalent preparation even ignoring the abbreviated months they spend on the job annually.
I agree with year around schools IF it is implemented by the districts, not the federal govt
Fix the regular term first. Public education is severely lacking. Don't turn schools into a free summer babysitter. If we do this, we do it for ALL public and charter schools.
But leave this to the states. The Fed needs to respect their governance over these issues. Approve requests for help on case by case basis. Not top down.
there are lot of disadvantages in low income area's they need all the help we can give them