Education Questions for FAQs

==FAQs in need of answers by candidates and the community.==
==Who has the ultimate authority regarding the education of a child?==
==How much money is too much money for schools? Or is there no dollar limit that's too high?==
==How low would student performance have to get, or how high would teacher salaries have to get, before you would consider a radical revamping of our system of public education?==
==Is it fair that homeschooling parents have to pay school taxes and pay for their childrens' education with no rebate or credit?==
==What do you think of "No Child Left Behind?"==
==Do you think schools are becoming part medical centers for students? Is this a good thing?==
==Do you think that federal intrusion into local education is excessive? If so, what could the PA state legislature do to send a message to Washington and fellow states that enough is enough? ==
==What level of school tax increase do you think should trigger voter approval?==
==If the state increases its funding of local schools, then what is to stop local school boards from viewing their budgets as "free" and spending like there's no tomorrow?==
==In Ohio voters can vote on a school tax increase. When voted down, school boards/administrators often cut the most essential or popular programs and then interpret the public outcry as a call for higher taxes. How can this posturing be avoided in PA if we fully embrace public approval of school tax increases?==
==What example did the state legislature set for Pennsylvania's school children when it voted itself that midnight payraise last year?==
==Regarding the 2005 midnight pay-raise, what would you say to impressionable students who thought that they now should be able to vote their own grades and homework assignments?==
==If property taxes keep rising to pay rising school costs, would you support paying teachers with the foreclosed homes of elderly, retired, fixed-income, now-homeless former residents?==
==If you support paying for education with sin taxes like slots, but education costs keep rising, then what sins should be taxed next? (Prostitution? Marijuana? Child porn? Legislative pay-raises? Membership in political third parties?)==
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