Our goal is for equal funding for all schools and all children.  

We think all states should put public education funding first in the budget and what’s left over goes to all the other programs, We have seen many states as the budget gets tight. Feel the need to cut education spending. This is totally the wrong approach.  

The best way to raise revenues for all state and federal budgets it to provide the best education to our children. They will grow up and have good jobs, pay taxes and be a positive contribution to society. The more children that fail create a bigger tax burden as well as less revenue for society.  

Uniform and fair funding is a much needed change, There a many ways states chose to fund the schools through property taxes, utility taxes and so on. We believe each state should commit the funds for education from the general budget based on a the number of students at each school. Many small schools need to share the administration and support staffs to keep the teachers pay as the priority. 

This will be a big change for many schools and will not show immediate results. It will take several years and many tough choices on state leaders to resist the temptation to cut education spending but the end result will be better educated kids, Professional teachers that receive professional pay. 

Sometimes we wonder how we got to where we are today. Just a hundred years ago many schools in small towns were one room school houses. Communities would find someone to teach them, send the children to school when they were not needed to work. A better education was a great idea but work and responsibilities often got in the way. Many children needed to work full time in the summer so many schools started the tradition of letting school out all summer. We have come a long way but still lack the commitment to provide the best educational experience for our children no matter what the investment. We let millions of children just go through the system and the schools are glad to get them out. 

A free education should be considered a privilege, not a right to attend no matter what.  

The national average for per student spending was $7,500 in 2003, In contrast we spent an average of $45,000 per prisoner in the United States with 1/2 the prison population considered non violent.