Blog 2

It's no news that Government spending in education has decreased, even so more now with the Budget deficit crisis. As a student who is about to begin college next year, I find this issue to be of moderate importance. Since it appears to be less and less money going around to help pay for college and more people trying to compete for that money. 
I read Pain, some Gains: House Bill on Education spending by Kristina C., and to be truthful I found it some what depressing, which is odd because it's informative. The article talked about the Budget plans recently employed, a lot of green being cut from federal programs, and a billion or two scattered in the system. Mayor programs, such as Advance Placement were receiving a cut of $43.4 million. Sad because those programs definitely help kids get a head start in college and save money while doing so. Advance Placement courses, for those who do not know, are courses offered at high schools that assimilate a College class,. The class prepares the student to take an exam at offered the end of the School year, and if the student passes it counts as a college credit. Typically the Advance Placement is offered to take a required class such as English and knock it out of the way, college Freshmen year English. 
What I found perturbing, mostly because I was unaware, were the cuts being employed to the Latino population. Spending on programs to aid the Latino population were being cut, meaning less Latinos finishing college thus putting forward, yet another uneducated generation of Latinos. Another thing I was unaware of were the Pell Grants, whose eligibility not only downsized three years but the income downsized as well, to 5,500 dollars. Ironic, since United States has the best economy in the world, but according to the Education Spending chart, United States holds the 38th place in  money spent on education, with a mere 17 % of the country Government expenditure used for Education falling behind third World countries such as Yemen, who spend roughly a third of the Government expenditure on education

It seems that now a days there are no good news, this was not the exception.