School Security Funding

According to an article from CNN, funding for high-tech school security was cut by 1/3 during the Bush administration. Obama's education package, rather than replace the previously slashed security funding, is replacing it with funds to increase student-school involvement and to create an overall more close-knit school community that will deter violence.

What are your thoughts? Will close-knit school communities with increased counselors and violence prevention programs stop another "Columbine" from happening? Or is the threat of school violence so immediate and pressing that schools need officer patrols, metal detectors, and drug-sniffing dogs?

Obama on Education

If you've been following the news lately, you are aware that President Obama is planning massive federal spending on education. Fifty-three billion dollars will go toward state stabilization funds. Ten billion will go toward Title I programs.

What are your thoughts on Obama's education spending plan for 2009? Is it enough? Are the funds being placed into the right programs?


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