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erobadapazzi
Jul 23, 2007

Oxphocker posted:

Part of the problem is the way we fund schools with local taxes. While it only accounts for approximately 20% of most districts budgets...the local tax portion is why schools in nicer areas can afford better things vs poor areas that have to run everything on a shoestring. It causes problems because those better off, already have better schools so they aren't going to vote for change and those who need it are often already disenfranchised to begin with. That is partially why the forced integration in the south was a federal directive because the local populations will never support it.


This is something I'm curious about. I teach in a wealthy district in California, and I've been hearing a lot of talk lately about how we receive some of the lowest per-student funding in the state due to the assumption that we can make it up with our own fundraising. Are there any other states that use this model? What have the results been? I can and will do my own research here, but it's a point I would like to see discussed.

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