Disbursement of Revenue: Education Funding

Disbursement of Federal Hemp/Cannabis Revenue

Section 3: Industrial and Economic

Part C: Education Funding

25% of Total Disbursement

Purpose:      To double the relative pay of all Public School Teachers

within a decade;

A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of Hemp/Cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of providing a means to double the relative income of Public School Teachers within 10 years after the enactment of this Proposal.

“A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money.”

~ Author unknown

A Portion of the Hemp/Cannabis Tax portioned for Education will be used to supplement State and Local Teacher salaries from a Federal pool diverted proportionately to the States with the Sole Purpose of increasing the salaries of State and Local Teachers.  An anticipated goal is to achieve, within a decade of enactment of the U.S. H.E.M.P. Act, a doubling of the pay of Teachers relative to that which it is at the time of enactment, consistent to salaries currently in effect in each State and Local district.

Purpose:      To allow for continuous training and hiring of Public School

Teachers to achieve a 20:1 maximum Student/Teacher ratio nationwide;

A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of Hemp/Cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of Recruiting, Training and Hiring of Public School Teachers so as to achieve a maximum Public Classroom Student (K-12) to Teacher ratio of no greater than 20:1 nationwide.

“Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.”

~ Confucius

A portion of the Hemp/Cannabis Tax portioned for Education will be used to provide funds with which to train and hire State and Local Public Education Professionals Nationwide with a goal of achieving, within a decade, a maximum Teacher/Student ratio per classroom of 1:20 Nationwide.  Funding will also be available to supply, Nationwide, continuous and ongoing training and education for State and Local Teachers Nationwide.  This funding will be permanent and ongoing.

Purpose:      To allow funds for continuous purchase and upgrade of educational

materials for Public School classrooms nationwide;

A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of Hemp/Cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of providing a continuing fund with which to purchase modern teaching and educational materials for Public School Classrooms nationwide with emphasis given to those Public Schools, rural or urban, most in need.

"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men."

~ Bill Beattie

A portion of the Hemp/Cannabis Tax portioned for Education will be used to supplement State and Local School District upgrade and purchase of new and modern critical equipment Nationwide.  Emphasis is to be given to those districts, either rural or urban, which are most in need of equipment upgrade.  Primary use of such funds should be focused on modernization of Classroom Educational Materials, from bound books to classroom computer terminals.  This funding will be permanent and ongoing, spreading through districts and repeating thereafter to provide a continuous and growing fund with which to supplement equipment purchase on a State and Local level Nationwide.

Purpose:      To establish funds for continuous building and upgrade of Public

Schools nationwide;

A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of Hemp/Cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of Renovating old and Building new Public Schools nationwide with emphasis on those Public School Districts, rural or urban, most in need.

“Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.”

~ W.B. Yeats

A portion of the Hemp/Cannabis Tax portioned for Education will be used to modernize and renovate existing Public Schools as well as to fund the building and expansion of new Public Schools Nationwide.  Emphasis should be placed upon those Schools and Districts, rural or urban, most in need of modernization, renovation or replacement.  This funding will be permanent and ongoing, spreading through districts and repeating thereafter to provide a continuous and growing fund with which to supplement the renovation and building of Public Schools Nationwide.

Purpose:      To establish College Incentives Programs;

A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of Hemp/Cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of developing College Incentive programs and to implement such programs.

“Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.”

~ Will Rogers

A portion of the Hemp/Cannabis Tax portioned for Education should be set aside to help develop methods to ensure that every U.S. Student and Citizen has the ability to acquire a College education.  Be this a supplement to existing programs or a new program developed, the purpose should be to increase the percentage of Citizens taking advantage of higher level education within the U.S.