Obama's Budget Proposes a significant Increase for Schools

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/us/15education.html?_r=1&ref=education
On monday, President Obama proposed a budget increase for the Department of Education in 2012. If this gets passed more federal mony will go to the public school system and will maintian the maximum amount of money for the pell grant, $5,550 per student. It will be hard to get this program passed my the house republicans, who are already proposing to cut $1.1 billion from the Head Start program, by doing this, 200,000 chilldren would be left without services and more than 50,000 jobs will be losed by the employees of the Head Start program. President Obama thinks that in order to remain competitive, this nation must increase the number of college graduates. If the House Republicans proposal passes, over the next 10 years, $56 billion will be cut from the pell grant program and many people worry that cutting the pell grant will cause mny low-income students to not go to college.
After reading this article, I really hope that they do not cut money frm the pell grant and many other educaional systems. Education is no something that we should be cutting down on. Insted of paying about $1 billion on a new vikings stadium we should be puting more money back into schools.