Budgets cut student experience

CNN Is Reporting over the past couple years, like many Americans, students have been feeling the effects the economic recession. Shrinking state and local education budgets matched with the added pressure of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, which sets rigid standards in reading and math that schools must achieve in order to receive federal funding, have created a new challenge for districts.


According to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), school budget crunches have been a trend over the past couple years and span the entire nation, with no end in sight.