Presidential Commission on Expanding Opportunity and Reducing Inequality in America with a Focus on the Education System

President Biden has named you the chair of his “Presidential Commission on Expanding Opportunity and Reducing Inequality in America”. Drawing from the course readings and your weekly response papers (as well as your outside research), develop a comprehensive plan containing recommendations for the public policies that you recommend be adopted and why.

Why did you decide on the approach/policies you chose rather than a different approach or set of policies? Which of your recommended policies are most important and why? What level of government (local, state, or federal) is likely to be the most effective at designing and implementing these policies? In what areas might markets or tax incentives or private charity (rather than government policy) be the best approach? What kinds of political changes might need to occur to enable your plan to become a reality?

While your briefings will provide some of the raw material for your paper, you will need to do more than merely cutting and pasting them together.  Be sure to make a clear and sustained argument, to support it with evidence, and to draw explicitly from the course readings as well as from at least 6 outside sources of which at least 3 must be academic sources (journal articles or books).  Encyclopedias (especially Wikipedia) are NOT acceptable sources.  The papers must contain footnotes or endnotes and a bibliography—in a consistent format of your choosing.

Focus: on the education system in America, what policies can be put in place to ensure equal education to all children? Talk about how other issues play into the education system ex. food insecurity, lack of resources due to financial issues, mental and physcial problems of the child that cannot afford to be fixed, etc.

Sources

-Books to refer to: Our Kids by Robert D. Putnam, The Governmnet-Citizen Disconnect by Suzanne Mettler, and Inequality in America by Steven M. Caliendo

-Must have 6 outside sources; 3 academic and 3 regular

Use information from essays attached to files.