Everything in our government runs on a chain of command. In the education system, the chain order is student-school-city-state-federal government. Some argue that the last link in the chain has (or should have) no part in individual state education systems. However, for the growth and advancement of all areas of this country, it would be very beneficial for the federal government to assist state governments in the education process.
             Bob Schaffer, a representative of a district in Colorado, argues that a few men in Washington will not know the best modus operandum for a small and rural local education system. He states that "the country is too diverse for Washington to make good decisions about local issues".(Wooley and Papa-90) But by way of the Educate America Act(1994) also known as GOALS 2000, the federal government will not decide local education issues but rather give the local government aide so that it can more easily help itself.
             Another argument by Schaffer is that by implementing GOALS 2000 it will give the federal government complete control over all curricula and subject matters being taught to out children. This is not the intent of the federal government as stated by Schaffer's counter-point Mr. John Donnangelo. It is not the governments desire to have each student receive "carefully screened information as Donnangelo says "Quality education leading to the creation of a sizable workforce able to compete in a fast paced, ever changing, technologically orientated global economy is a national goal too important to the nation as a whole for the federal government to say that education is a state issue..."(Wooley and Papa-105). This author thinks that J. Donnangelo is exactly right. In our ever-changing society, there are certain things that everyone should know. And this is one of the intents of GOALS 2000. GOALS 2000 also proposes to provide funding for better technological eq
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