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Dennis Amaya Megan Keaton Eng 112 31 April 2013 Liepmann, Erica. "Bill Gates: Education Budget Cuts Don't Have To Hurt Learning." The Huffington Post.TheHuffingtonPost.com, 28 Feb. 2011. Web. 27 Mar. 2013. From this article from the Huffington Post, Liepmann talks about Bill Gates plan for the Education system. She starts by explaining that Bill Gates believes that budget cuts could have a positive effect on education. Bill Gates says that school districts have to increase class sizes and put great teachers in front of the higher number of students. Bill is in favor of laying off teacher that are not producing results and hiring teacher that are giving great results. Liepmann explains that Bill Gates talked to governor about lowering cost and how they can do just that. Liepmann quotes an interview featuring Bill Gates, where he said that school districts should not pay premiums to teachers that have advanced degrees. His reasoning is that most of the time these teachers are not as efficient as teachers that do not have advance education. She also uses examples of people with the opposite opinion on the topic. Liepmann has great evidence to prove her point and Bill Gates Point. Her using other peoples opinion helps her topic even more. She uses Bev Perdue opinion so that her argument is not bias. She doesnt only quote Perdue but goes as far to explain Perdues opinion. This helps the reader understand both sides and makes her article more believable. Although she does explain the main topic well, later on in the article she gets off track and talks about another subject. She talks about the economy when she should have worried more about education.

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I feel that this article will be the most important for my paper. It is tough to find an article that share the opinion of this article. This article could be the only article I may find that believes that education doesnt need more funds. It also explains their point of view with plenty of evidence and that could be beneficial to my paper. I could use this article to contrast the other articles. Gates noted that the number of teachers and support personnel has increased from about 40 adults per 1,000 students in 1960 to about 125 adults per 1,000 students today. North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue said while expanding class sizes sound easy, she wondered what the effect on students would be if a bad teacher were asked to take on five or six more children. Among the do's: Lift caps on class sizes and get more students in front of the very best teachers. Those teachers would get paid more with the savings generated from having fewer personnel overall.

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McKenna, Laura. "The Worst Victims of the Education Sequester: Special-Needs Students and Poor Kids. "The Atlantic. 18 Mar. 2013. Web. 20 Mar. 2013. This article by Laura McKenna explains how special needs students will suffer because of the education budget cuts. She is very detailed, and uses many statistics. She uses these statistics to help her main idea. She explains, that although special educations is not getting big cuts like normal education, that school districts will put special need students in normal classes. The problem with that is that most of these kids cannot strive in these classes. She shows the reader that the Government has failed to hold their promise from the Individual with Disabilities Education Act. It is fairly easy to see that McKenna spent plenty of time researching because she backs up everything she says with a statistic. She uses the federal budget to explain where the budget cuts will affect schools. She also goes as far to talk to district school board members to see what they are planning to do to work around the budget cuts, as well as, gathering the opinions of the parents with kids with disabilities of the school districts plans. The only weakness that this article has is that she does not list solutions to the problem she states. I plan on using this as one of the most important source when it comes to explaining that education needs more money for children to be able to compete with European students. I could also use this article to help fight the main idea of the article of Bill Gates. This article has great info and statistics so that I can also back up my main idea. Schools need Washington's money to provide basic services for its students, as states and localities have faced their own budget crises in recent years. The Department of Education support for special education amounts to between a sixth and a quarter of education spending in any given year

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School districts are already straining under the high cost of educating specialneeds kids, and even without the cuts

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RICHMOND, EMILY. "How the Sequester Could Devastate Our Poorest Schools." The Atlantic. CDN, 27 Feb. 2013. Web. 27 Mar. 2013. This article from the Atlantic, Emily Richmond explains that budget cuts will greatly affect small income schools. Most of the information she uses is from statements that Arne Duncan made. Arne Duncan is the Secretary of Education for the United States of America. She also explains what the critics of Arne Duncan believe. She also explains how individual states are affected more than others. Although she uses a lot of good information, like funding for education in poor neighborhoods and explaining some of the problems the lack of funding causes, she uses the same information as every other journalists is using. Having someones quotes like Arne Duncan helps her prove her point. It seemed that she didnt have enough material and wrote meaningless sentences. Like the following sentence; The administrators' association asked its members how many districts were planning ahead for the cuts -- just over half of them said they already had plans in place for the new fiscal year. I plan to use this article to fight the opinion of Bill Gates. I could use it to be a fight between two peoples opinions. Arne Duncan opinion which is more money needs to be used for education and Bill Gates idea that school can do just fine without more money. I can also show how different states are affected. She explains that cutting jobs is inevitable, and that can also be a good topic for my essay. Eventually, it would be up to individual states to figure out how they might make up for those missing dollars: Some might opt to cut staff, while others could increase class sizes.

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Some critics of the nation's public school system contend that there's plenty of money to meet students' needs, and that what's already allocated isn't spent wisely enough.

How quickly the dollars would dry up for programs like Head Start, or how the cuts would be carried out at the state and local level.

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Zhao, Emmeline. "Shanker Education Report: Money Matters, Affects Student Performance, Outcomes." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 09 Jan. 2012. Web. 01 Apr. 2013. This article from Emmeline Zhao talks about how money is very important for a good education. She believes that the most important education resource cost the most. She later explains that 37 of the 50 states in the United States have lowered funding for school. Zhao explains what different senator s and governors are doing to fight the budget cuts. Governor Christie tried to increase the amount of money put into low income schools but the Supreme Court deemed his deal unconstitutional. She believes that classroom sizes should stay low. She explains that some classrooms are so full that teachers cannot control their student. Zhao talks about classes that have over 50 students and only one teacher. The main idea is not defended well because the author does not explain how her information is relatable with the budget. The most important section of the article is a quote from Bruce Baker. He acknowledged that the government also needs to start using funds more efficiently. This statement contradicts her but strengthens her argument by showing both sides. I plan to use this to show that not all states are decreasing funds for education. I would also like to show that people also believe that the united states are not using funds efficiently. I could also use some of the quotes within the article like the following.

" Data-driven reformers have also regularly pointed to figures that show educational expenditures ballooning while student test scores have plateaued.

In Texas, teachers pointed the finger at Gov. Rick Perry, who underfunded the

state's schools by $5.5 billion despite access to a $9.4 billion rainy day fund. The cuts led

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to -- among other things -- a shortage of education jobs and massive school overcrowding. Neighbor New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is taking on the state Supreme Court, fighting the court's decision in May that the governor's educational funding cuts were unconstitutional. Noting that while New York is first in spending on schools, but 34th in performance,

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Fernandez, Manny. "At Texas Schools, Making Do on a Shoestring." The New York Times. The New York Times, 09 Apr. 2012. Web. 01 Apr. 2013. Manny Fernandez talks about how underfunded schools in Texas are. He explains that schools are making parents pay if they want their children to ride buses. He also explains that school will not provide bus coverage for students that live two miles from the school. Schools also are not taking field trips. The main idea of the article is to show the struggles of school in Texas. He supports his argument by showing how desperate schools are to cut spending and increasing revenue. He explains that schools are closing and sending students to more populated schools to decrease spending. Fifth graders are now being moved to middle schools as well. He also shows that Texas eliminated 10,000 teaching jobs and 15,000 non teaching jobs. This article has many more statistics like this one that help answer any question a person may on the topic of his article. I plan on using this article to show how desperate individual states are because education. The fact that other states that are worse off than Texas proves that the problem is getting bigger and tougher to solve. I will use this to prove that the United States needs more money for education. I will also use this article to relate to Arne Duncan idea and to contrast with Bill Gates idea. started charging parents for bus service. The fee, which ranges this year from $185 to $355 for one student in the Fort Worth area also stopped busing students who live within a two-mile walk of their school.

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canceling instructional field trips and eliminating music and art teachers in elementary schools.