In SPED 200 today we watched a video about two schools in New York. One was an urban public school and the other was private school in a rather nice neighborhood. The urban school was struggling with a lack of funding resulting in a whole slew of problems. Finding qualified teachers that are affordable is not an easy feat so some teachers are forced to teach subjects that they haven't been trained in.
The private school doesn't face that problem. Their funding is made possible by property taxes from a prestigious neighborhood and a tuition fee. The teachers are trained in the field they teach and are payed well.
Leaders have debated ways to fund schools for quite some time now because of cases like this (where you have two schools in the same community and one is terribly under equipped). When things move as fast as the technology field does you need a pretty heavy check book to keep schools up-to-date with technology. So how do financially struggling schools get funding for supplies like teachers or computers?
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