CAGW believes that should be a local decision and that these partnerships can provide much needed revenue for school districts without burdening local taxpayers. Write your Senator today opposing efforts in Congress to restrict the right of schools to contract with soft drink companies . Read about the vending machine debate in the March edition of WasteWatcher. Federal spending provides adequate funding for school districts.
Federal spending accounts for only seven percent of all education funds.
But according to a report from the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, U.S. Education Department programs require more than 38 million hours of paperwork each year. This helps explain why school officials still lack money to improve classes, buy computers and other equipment, build new schools for growing enrollments, pay rising teacher salaries, and fund athletic and extra-curricular programs. Property, local, state and federal taxes that raise money for education already place a heavy burden on taxpayers. Any decision to allow business partnerships in schools should be made in Washington. One method to increase school funds is business partnerships.