Show 57: Excerpt - Advertising in the Schools
AS EDUCATION BUDGETS continue to get slashed while the costs of schooling children continue to rise, some public schools in the United States are taking a closer look at advertising dollars to make ends meet. One school district in Texas is selling space to advertisers - on the inside of school buses, while another district in Colorado will rake in ninety-thousand dollars over three years for selling ad space - on report cards.
We're hearing more of these stories every day from around the country, so we wanted to know - how do Alaskans feel about advertising in the schools?
Our young reporter from the Alaska Teen Media Institute, Aviva Hirsch, has the story...
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  This show is made possible by the Association of Alaska School Boards’ Initiative for Community Engagement, an initiative funded by the US Dept. of Education to provide Alaskans with information, tools and assistance to work together and engage in the shared responsibility of preparing Alaska’s children and youth for the future. |