Let’s begin by talking about education. Do you remember yours? Do you remember how well the school was kept up? How big or small the classes were? Did your school have after school programs or clubs? Well this is where school funding comes into play. From school activities, clubs, how well the school maintenance was, all the way to how small or big the classrooms can be. School funding contributes to all that and many more things.
This is where our values come into play. Whoever we may be, we all have some form of value towards education. We all did some form of learning, whether it was at home, in school or online we valued what we learned. “Research shows that increases in school spending result in greater educational and economic outcomes for all students, but these were more pronounced for children from low-income families.” (A Quality Approach to School Funding). Children are our future, so why not give our future a fighting chance.
Our needs as a project is to obtain stakeholders, those who have the same values and needs as us. Which are the needs of getting everyone an equal opportunity in education. Leading to how the funding in low income schools differ from those in other schools. As we come together to form a group we come together to get to know each other's needs and values in a judgement free zone. If your needs piece in with ours we would love to have you as a stakeholder to help form a group who can bring into action equal funding.
The call of action that needs to be taken is to create a visibility plan with the stakeholders who would like to get involved in this project. A communication plan needs to be built, communication is the key to success. We must begin by deciding what our end goal is, Equal funding for all schools. Discussion and research must be done to view the difference between well funded schools vs schools that are underfunded. A well written layout of what we expect of our stakeholders and what our stakeholders expect from us must also be discussed. Once everything is formally written on paper, discussed and approved we will take action and begin on our goal.
