Private College Student Loan - What do you think of my approach to solving the education crisis?

What do you think of my approach to solving the education crisis?

The U.S. education system should be federally owned under one administration that has one branch in every state. The federal administration should be led by 3 appointed individuals by the president. Every state branch should have one representative which will go to the annual summit and ask for whatever their state needs (ex. Funding). The 3 appointed leaders should approve each petition unanimously. •Families should have to pay $100 a month per child if they attend a public school. Parents earning under $15,000 should be covered by a voucher. •Only legal U.S. citizens, residents, or those with student visas should be allowed to attend public school. •40 federally funded colleges/universities should be built in the next 20 years. These schools should have advanced technology, best research centers, medical schools, law schools, and hands on training etc with the best professors possible. Any student is eligible to receive a loan of $10,000 which will cover all of their college education. •An incentive program should be created where after having received a college a degree, depending on the level of their degree; each alumni of a federal school can receive a tax rebate for the first 5 years of their employed career. •At the local level there should be afterschool workshops set up where students of any college/university, government or not, can work by helping high school students with tutoring and mentoring. A college student studying math can work there by teaching math. These tutors/mentorers will receive a monthly government stipend of $400. At home parents need to encourage and help their children attain good habits like playing video games instead of homework.etc. and whats your political party? The federal administration should make the requirements to get into each school...depending on the level of difficulty of the school,the students past grades,high school diploma...

Public Comments

great idea
The more the government got involved in "education" the worse it has gotten.
I thought Hitler was dead!!
My approach: MAKE parents MAKE their kids CARE about knowledge and critical thinking. You're (very) welcome. Conservative (Party time).
I don't think you are qualified to "solve" the problem. The government doesn't solve problems, they create problems. And they've really done of bang up job of it of late!
Your plan is flawed in more ways than one. But it's a start.
In America we spend more on education than anywhere else on earth but still rank lower than many other nations in academic performance. What the system needs is smarter students; more dedicated students, and a culture that values education and educated people.
To much government intervention and it doesn't address the issue of the teacher's unions. Just my opinion.
Way to much power to the Government... The Government makes things like this worse... Independent Moderate
Government education sucks as is. The last thing we need is more of it. What makes you think the government WANTS educated people? The ignorant are much easier to control.
I am completely against any federal or state management of schools. Our current charter school system works like this. The principle owns the building and the land. She gets government money and we get audited by the government, but if she does not perform to standards then no students will come to the school. This is the perfect balance between private ownership and responsibility and public funds and public regulated. It is a mixture that brings responsibility and accountability. We were charter school of the year for the whole nation last year. Our waiting list is huge for a small town.
What makes you think the feds are qualified to run ANYTHING? The State of California isn't competent to run schools. The feds MANDATE stupid requirements, but they NEVER PAY for them For example, TWENTY-FIVE percent of all the money spent in my school of over eight hundred students is spent on the THIRTY or so "SPECIAL EDUCATION" students. THAT is mandated but never funded by the feds. And YOU think letting the feds take over an create another BIG, bloated agency is a good idea? Fu*k NO!
One flaw would be that they could keep petitioning for money without making any improvements. There has to be a catch to force them to make improvements in order to keep getting funding. Also, with 3 reps that must approve petitions unanimously, what do you do when unanimous approval can't be obtained? A lack of decision making is not a solution, only postponement of that solution. $100 / month per child is a measly pittance compared to the cost of running the school and paying its staff. Townships already levy a school tax, well in excess of $100 / month in most townships, to fund local schools. 40 federally funded colleges will be expensive, and forcing a tuition of $10,000 is not realistic. Professors at universities are not there to teach you. They are there to research. In order to get access to grants and financing for their research, they work at colleges where they have access to these resources. As a tradeoff for this access, they teach students, and to fund this research, students pay tuition. This forms a competitive system where good universities that produce good research have high tuitions to support the expensive research conducted by professors. Because the professors are more knowledgeable and cutting edge, the hope is that the education is of better quality (it isn't always the case). If you ask me, the main problem with school is that it is so unattractive compared to the myriad of entertainment that is available outside of school, and you'll find that the worse students gravitate towards entertainment too much and care about school too little, and the parents are more and more absent in this process the worse the student is. How you can solve that problem in a free society like ours is beyond my ability to understand.
10,000 to cover the entire college education- that is hilarious. how are the teachers going to get paid? does that also include living expenses? no body should have to pay for public school- ever- no matter what their income is (thats what taxes pay for)- the voucher system has not been very successful... the poverty level in today's society is about 20,000 25,000 depending... nice try, but keep your day job.
Your first sentence made my mind wander to think about all the other things our federal government "owns"... like social security (the biggest Ponzi scheme in the universe!), medicaid, United States Postal Service & Public Education. And now our government owns some banks and a whole lot of mortgages. Now I would wonder if you actually knew how the government pays for anything they "own". You may want to look at your next pay stub to figure out how much the government takes out of your earnings in order to pay for all these things they "own". Every earner in this country ALREADY pays for public education from their taxes. I agree that only U.S. Citizens, residents, or those with student visas should be allowed to attend public schools. I don't want the Federal Government to own colleges. They already give tons of grants to state colleges. We don't need any more federal influence injected into our higher education. The only solution for the best educational system in the United States to be competitive with other countries.... 1. vouchers 2. get rid of ALL teacher's unions Any time the government thinks they can over-regulate something, it fails. Remember Freddie and Fannie!
All sounds Ok but what about quality at education?How will be the teacher -still a machine to pour something at big jets into a container that holds little?What about the kids who get tired and worn out after some weeks menatlly?And the teacher who talked so much that thye need a drink ( say GUINESS)to revive themselves for the next day.EtcETc
Dude, I am 61 years old. I don't have enough time left on this planet to point out all the flaws in your plan. Suffice to say, you want the government to fix something they have royally fvcked up. Your first point would reduce educational budgets by at least $600 a month per student. I assume that $100 would be in lieu of my current $1200 a month property taxes. OH, it's in addition to them is it. The more government dinks with something the worse it gets. There idea of making it easy for people with no money and no hope of having any to buy homes is the reason the economy is circling the bowl. The best thing this government could possibly do is take an extended vacation. Eight to nine hundred years might help a bit but as soon as they came back it would be business as usual. Social engineer using the water treatment plant or some other moronic concept. If politicians were capable of learning they would know that raising taxes slows the economy and reduces revenue into governmental coffers. Lowering them does the opposite because money moves and as it move taxes are stripped off at every transaction. But you watch!!! This administration will use them to punish those who work for a living and don't depend on government handouts. You know the ones, those that didn't vote for President Obama.