in lower grades, and no more than twenty in the upper grades. Al Gore would further provide $8 billion to help recruit, hire, and train 1,000,000 new teachers over the next ten year, with incentives for those who commit to work in a high-need school (Crowley 7). Another part of his plan is to back the modernization of more than 6,000 schools, which would include rebuilding outdated buildings, wiring every classroom to the Internet, and training students and teachers to use that technology. For the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), he wants to increase the federal matching funds to closer to forty percent (8).George W. Bush on the other hand feels that the federal government should require individual states to set education standards and commence a three-year testing period for each school (6). Standardized tests would be required for students, and they would determine the progress of students at schools receiving federal money through Title I, which is a program for low-income students (Snow 1). If results remain low, then the money would go directly to the parents. These vouchers would be about $1500 per child. Bush would also establish a $500 million fund to reward states and schools that improve student performance and withdraw a portion of federal funding from states that permit performance to decline (2). His plan supports further development of charter schools by investing $300 million in a charter school homestead fund to provide $3 billion in loan guarantees to two-hundred new charter school (Crowley 7). The policy additionally includes a tripling in federal funding for “character education.” Bush also is for the establishment of the Education Savings Account. He supports transferring responsibility for Head Start from the Department of Health and Human Services to the Department of Education and wants to expand the role and research of the DoE in Head Start (7). “I won’t clos...
