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Public schools in the US aren't (primarily) funded by income taxes. They're primarily funded by local property taxes.

• alkonaut 10y ago
  That's just another broken system. That creates incentives to move to "good school districts" which is, obviously, not a very good reason to move e.g. further from work, or further from where you would otherwise like to be.
• cmurf 10y ago
  But any deduction or credit for education happens on income tax forms; there's no mechanism to get deductions or credits on property taxes any other way. People with enough deductions get to file Schedule A and explicitly itemize property taxes. Typically owning a house gets you enough itemized deductions to justifying filing Schedule A so while a renter indirectly pays property taxes too, they don't get an explicit deduction for property taxes and thus also wouldn't get to deduct additional costs of homeschooling incurred.