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As the chronically underfunded Californian public school system faces the imminent threat of having one whole month sliced out of their calendar, owing to massive budget cuts expected in the state education budget, other public schools across the country continue to grapple with their own set of problems, including violence, absenteeism, drug abuse and a myriad of other issues.
As politicians from both sets of the divide continue with their rhetoric and drum beatings in their search of a magic pill could resolve the ever burgeoning crisis affecting the national education sector, our youths have quietly, but surely, fallen down the ladder among the developed nations. A recent test discovered that American children are ranked 25th in Mathematics and 21st in Science among their foreign peers, while literacy levels remain unchanged since the first survey was taken way back in 1971. Our failing education policy will be one of the most watched issues in the presidential race.
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Declared 2012 Democratic Presidential Candidate
Current President of the United States
Barack Obama
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Obama Position on Education
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• Obama intends to revive 'No Child Left Behind' by recruiting an army of new teachers and support
schools that need improvement rather than punishing them.
• He believes, after high school graduation, that all students should undergo a year of on the job
training or higher education to enable the creation of a skilled workforce within the country.
• Obama supports programs like 'Head start' which is an attempt to influence early learning in a
child. This equips a young child with qualities and the confidence to go into Kindergarten.
• He suggested investing $10 billion in Education so that every child in the country can access
quality, affordable and early childhood education.
• He supports American Opportunity Tax Credit, a universally and fully refundable tax credit that
will ensure that the first $4000 of a college education is free for most Americans.
• Obama recommends a Step Up plan which has community organizations and local schools pitching in
to offer summer learning opportunities for disadvantaged children.
• He suggested consolidating Direct Loan Programs to save $4.5 billion rather than managing these
loans through banks and private money lenders.
• Obama recommends age appropriate sex education right from Kindergarten level to help children
escape child molestation.
• He supports setting up of charter schools and private investment in schools saying that it is
necessary to experiment and reward good performances in the classroom
• After school and summer school programs for minority and underprivileged youth with parental
help. This Obama stressed especially for African American fathers who seemed to be continually
absent from home.
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