User:Antoniocmontero1

I am considering writing about the way that United States Public Schools are funded and the inhumane act of forced abortions. These are two plentiful, understated, and contentious topics that I feel need to be added to on Wikipedia.

Public School Funding in the United States

Wikipedia Page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_funding_in_the_United_States

The way The United States’ public school funding has been set up is through local property taxes that provide most of the funding for public school and this varies in accordance to the relative affluence of each neighborhood. This can be problematic since more impoverished areas will likely have worse educational opportunities, therefore putting children at a disadvantage. Often times, these affected communities are communities of color and this has assisted in disparities between ethnic and racial groups throughout the United States. I would like to elaborate more on this topic since I believe that it lacks the background of why this legislation was passed, the impact the disparities have on economic outcomes, and the general layout of the page is hard to follow. I think that this topic would fit in with our class curriculum and is a crucial topic to understand the United State’s educational system. There is a substantial amount of data and research on this topic, and data that demonstrates the growing disparities in public school funding, especially for poor and diverse communities.

References

Baker, Bruce D., et al. “Mind the Gap: 20 Years of Progress and Retrenchment in School Funding and Achievement Gaps.” ETS Research Report Series, vol. 2016, no. 1, 2016, pp. 1–37. Wiley Online Library, https://doi.org/10.1002/ets2.12098.

ACE-Ed. “The Impact of Inequitable School Funding: Solutions for Struggling Schools Without the Money to Fully Help Struggling Students.” Equity & Access Pre K-12 | The American Consortium for Equity in Education, 3 Aug. 2019, https://www.ace-ed.org/inequitable-school-funding/.

Federal Role in Education. 15 June 2021, https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/role.html.

“Finance ~ How Do We Fund Our Schools? | Where We Stand | PBS.” Where We Stand, 5 Sept. 2008, https://www.pbs.org/wnet/wherewestand/blog/finance-how-do-we-fund-our-schools/197/.

Loveless, Diane Ravitch and Tom. “Broken Promises: What the Federal Government Can Do To Improve American Education.” Brookings, 30 Nov. 2001, https://www.brookings.edu/articles/broken-promises-what-the-federal-government-can-do-to-improve-american-education/.

Martin, Carmel, et al. “A Quality Approach to School Funding.” Center for American Progress, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-12/reports/2018/11/13/460397/quality-approach-school-funding/. Accessed 17 Sept. 2021.

School Funding Issues: How Decreasing Budgets Are Impacting Student Learning and Achievement. https://soeonline.american.edu/blog/school-funding-issues/. Accessed 17 Sept. 2021.

The Condition of Education - Elementary and Secondary Education - Finance - Public School Revenue Sources - Indicator May (2013). 25 Aug. 2013, https://web.archive.org/web/20130825060728/https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cma.asp.

Turner, Cory, et al. “Week 1: Why America’s Schools Have A Money Problem.” NPR, 18 Apr. 2016. NPR, https://www.npr.org/2016/04/18/474256366/why-americas-schools-have-a-money-problem.

“Why Our Education Funding Systems Are Derailing the American Dream.” Learning Policy Institute, https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/blog/why-our-education-funding-systems-are-derailing-american-dream. Accessed 17 Sept. 2021.

Forced Abortion

Wikipedia Page -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_abortion

This Wikipedia page appears to be underdeveloped and is missing important information about legislation passed, occurrences worldwide, and much more. The definition of a forced abortion is when a perpetrator causes abortion by force, threat or coercion, or by taking advantage of a situation where a pregnant individual is unable to give consent, or when valid consent is in question due to duress. This may also include the instances when the conduct was neither justified by medical or hospital treatment. Like forced sterilization, forced abortion may include a physical invasion of female reproductive organs. This topic delves into human rights violations and more specifically oppression against women. The original article involves the countries of China, the UK, the US, and North Korea, but forced abortions occur worldwide and need to be covered more extensively. I believe that this could be a fruitful and worthwhile project given the recent legislation in Texas, and the class topic of the oppression of women. Also, this topic fits into social justice issues in a multitude of manners, and is one that generally goes understated - forced abortions can happen in several different ways and happens more often than we think.

References

H.R. 2570 — 105th Congress: Forced Abortion Condemnation Act.” www.GovTrack.us. 1997. September 16, 2021 < https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/105/hr2570 >

Hawk, David R. 2012. The hidden gulag: the lives and voices of "those who are sent to the mountains". Washington, DC: U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. http://www.hrnk.org/uploads/pdfs/HRNK_HiddenGulag2_Web_5-18.pdf.

Lederer, Wetzel. The Health Consequences of Sex Trafficking and Their Implications for Identifying Victims in Healthcare Facilities. Volume 23, Issue 1. https://www.icmec.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Health-Consequences-of-Sex-Trafficking-and-Implications-for-Identifying-Victims-Lederer.pdf

“Abortion and Infanticide in Cuba.” PRI, 1 Nov. 1995, https://www.pop.org/abortion-and-infanticide-in-cuba/.

“China Cuts Uighur Births with IUDs, Abortion, Sterilization.” AP NEWS, 20 Apr. 2021, https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-international-news-weekend-reads-china-health-269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c.

“Coercion Is at the Heart of Social Conservatives’ Reproductive Health Agenda.” Guttmacher Institute, 2 Feb. 2018, https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2018/02/coercion-heart-social-conservatives-reproductive-health-agenda.

F, et al. “How China’s One-Child Policy Led To Forced Abortions, 30 Million Bachelors.” NPR, 1 Feb. 2016. NPR, https://www.npr.org/2016/02/01/465124337/how-chinas-one-child-policy-led-to-forced-abortions-30-million-bachelors.

Forced Abortion | Global Health & Human Rights Database. https://www.globalhealthrights.org/tag/forced-abortion/. Accessed 17 Sept. 2021.

“Women of Xinjiang Reveal Horror of China’s Brutal Campaign of Forced Abortions and Imprisonment.” The Independent, 16 Oct. 2020, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-uighur-xinjiang-forced-abortion-imprisonment-beijing-xi-kazakhstan-b1072127.html.

“Forced Abortion.” European Institute for Gender Equality, https://eige.europa.eu/thesaurus/terms/1135. Accessed 17 Sept. 2021.