AMERICA'S CHOICE:EDUCATION OR WAR…WE THINK THEY CHOSE WAR

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GREETINGS,

A LOOK AT THE STATE OF AMERICAN EDUCATION AND A LOOK AT THE WAR BUDGET LET US LOOK (@ THE WAR FUNDING )

  WE ARE CONTINUING WITH THE ISSUE OF AMERICA’S DECLINE(see. AND SO THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA’S EDUCATION PROCEEDS).WE CAN SEE A CLEAR DECLINE IN AMERICA’S STATURE.ANYONE REGARDLESS TO THEIR VIEWS CAN HONEST SAY THE SAME.THERE IS NO REVERSING THIS TREND.

  AMERICAN ELITISTS AND EVEN TO THE AVERAGE JOE PEOPLE ARE NOW PONDERING WHAT IS NEXT TO COME .THEY ARE IN FEAR DAILY.THEY ARE STILL ARROGANT YET ALLAH WILL HUMBLE THEM.THERE IS NO DOUBT ABOUT THIS.

  THE WORLD OF THE WHITE MAN IS WITHOUT A DOUBT CRASHING AND BURNING.THE SO-CALLED GREAT NATION OF AMERICA IS TAKING THE LEAD.AS HER FUNDING FOR HER SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES PLUMMET AND HER BUDGET FOR WAR GROWING AT LEVELS THAT ARE GREATER THAN THE REST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD,SHE IS UNKNOWINGLY HELPING TO DESTROY HER OWN CIVILIZATION.

  IT IS EDUCATION THAT PRODUCES ADVANCEMENT IN THE SCIENCES,MATHEMATICS,AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS.IT IS EDUCATION THAT BREEDS GROWTH AND ENLIGHTENMENT.IT IS EDUCATION THAT BUILDS THE ARCHITECHS.IT IS EDUCATION THAT CIVILIZES AND CULTURES THE PEOPLE.

  WITHOUT PROPER FUNDING OF EDUCATIONAL HOUSES AND INSTITUTE YOU ARE IN ESSENCE PUTTING YOUR FUTURE IN THE HANDS OF MILITARY RULE.HISTORY TEACHES US THAT THIS IS ALWAYS A SHORT LIVED PERIOD WHICH SPEEDS UP THE DECAY,DECLINE,AND ULTIMATELY THE DESTRUCTION OF YOUR SOCIETY,NATION,AND PEOPLE.

  THE SCHOLARS OF THIS WORLD,ESPECIALLY AMERICA SHOULD LOOK DEEP INTO AS THEY ARE ACTUALLY DESTROYING THEIR OWN FOUNDATION AND SPEEDING UP THEIR OWN DEMISE.JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THEIR LATEST MOVES;

Coast-to-coast double-digit college tuition hikes

State budget deficits contribute to higher education costs

	Tuition at the University of Illinois campus in Urbana will rise at least 9 percent this summer, officials say. //
David Mercer / AP

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SEATTLE – As students around the country anxiously wait for college acceptance letters, their parents are sweating the looming tuition bills at public universities.

Florida college students could face yearly 15 percent tuition increases for years, and University of Illinois students will pay at least 9 percent more. The University of Washington will charge 14 percent more at its flagship campus. And in California, tuition increases of more than 30 percent have sparked protests reminiscent of the 1960s.

Tuition has been trending upward for years, but debate in statehouses and trustee meeting rooms has been more urgent this year as most states struggle their way out of the economic meltdown.

The College Board says families are paying about $172 to $1,096 more in tuition and fees this school year. The national average for 2009-2010 is about $7,020, not including room and board, according to the nonprofit association of colleges that oversees the SATs and Advanced Placement tests.

Mike Sarb, a University of Illinois senior from suburban-Chicago Elk Grove Village, Ill., says money is a big concern for his blue-collar family scrambling to find the money to pay more than $20,000 for tuition, room and board.

They are not pleased that university officials are likely to raise tuition 9 percent this summer.

“They do complain that the school’s taking advantage of people (by raising tuition),” Sarb said.

But interim President Stanley Ikenberry says the school has run out of options. With a budget deficit expected to top $11 billion this year, the state of Illinois owes the university more than $430 million, money he doesn’t expect to see any time soon.

Florida on a long, rising road
In some cases, one student’s tuition disaster is another’s bargain.

State officials have told Florida students they can expect 15 percent tuition increases every year until tuition reaches the national average. That could be a long slog, as the state is starting its tuition realignment from a place other students envy — about $3,000 a year.

In California, unprecedented budget cuts to higher education have led to huge fee increases at the state’s two public university systems, as well as layoffs, furloughs, enrollment cuts and reduced course offerings.

At the University of California, which has 10 campuses and about 220,000 students, in-state undergraduate fees in fall 2010 are set to reach $10,302 — 32 percent more than in fall 2009 and three times what California residents paid 10 years ago.

But at California State University, the nation’s largest public university system with 23 campuses and 450,000 students, resident undergraduate fees rose 32 percent from fall 2008 to fall 2009 to $4,026, which is nearly three times what students paid 10 years ago. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s budget proposal for 2010-2011 assumes that the system will raise fees another 10 percent in the coming academic year.

“We’re paying more and getting less,” said Steve Dixon, a Humboldt State University senior who heads the California State Students Association.

At the University of Washington, where tuition and fees are expected to pass $9,000 by the 2010-2011 school year, students are worried about threatened cuts in financial aid as well.

“It’s kind of a perfect storm for students,” said Jono Hanks, a political science major from Everett, Wash., who is the UW student government lobbyist at the statehouse this quarter.

Hanks lives at home, packs his lunch and pays tuition with work and about $4,000 in student loans a year. Others have told him they’re looking for a second job and adding to their debt to keep up with this year’s 14 percent tuition increase

“Some of them are even talking about dropping out for a few years so they can pay off the loans they have,” Hanks said.

The Seattle university expects to raise tuition another 14 percent next year. UW tuition used to double every decade. At 14 percent a year, it could double in five.

Hanks is almost finished with school so he’s not that concerned about his ability to pay for the last few quarters of his degree. But he does worry what barrier tuition increases will pose for his younger sister and brother, who are both in elementary school.

Some exceptions to the new norm
Other states have been more subtle in their budget balancing attempts.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is in the first year of a four-year tuition increase plan aimed at improving quality. In addition to statewide tuition increases of about 5.5 percent, in-state students at UW-Madison will pay an extra $250 a year each year.

This year, tuition went up by $617 to $7,296 or about 9.2 percent, but financial aid increased at the same time.

Still, few are complaining because the extra money — $100 million in the first four years and $40 million each year afterward — is reserved for providing more classes, improving student services and increasing need-based financial aid.”

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