The Arts are usually the first thing to go when a school faces budget cuts. Are these programs too…

Education
Overcrowded classes, underfunded schools - do you think education is enough of a priority in America?

Overcrowded classes, underfunded schools - do you think education is enough of a priority in America?
The Arts are usually the first thing to go when a school faces budget cuts. Are these programs too…
Is it fair that being from a different town gives you access to less quality education?
Only 10% of youth graduate from high school with any kind of instruction in personal finance.
In America, a kid drops out of high school every 9 seconds. Imagine if they didn’t.
This is the compelling question behind award-winning filmmaker Mary Mazzio's newest project TEN9EIGHT, a thought provoking film which tells the inspirational stories of several inner city teens (of differing race, religion, and ethnicity) from Harlem to Compton and all points in between, as they compete in an annual business plan competition run by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE).
The film includes students such as:
The White House released a report this morning, stating that the Obama administration’s economic stimulus program, the biggest in the country’s history, has created or saved at least 650,000 jobs nationwide.
After rolling out the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the government has so far spent $339 billion and says the actual number of jobs created by the measure is probably closer to 1 million because today’s job creation report only focuses on $150 billion of the $339 billion spent so far.