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Yes foreigners think majority funding means 100% funded, but my local K12 gets $80M from prop tax, $50M from the state acting as middleman (its a proxy for inco
by VLM 8y ago
Yes foreigners think majority funding means 100% funded, but my local K12 gets $80M from prop tax, $50M from the state acting as middleman (its a proxy for income tax funding the schools), and $3M from the feds.
With the rise of identity politics in the USA, there's little motivation to help the kids of people who hate you and your kids, its a natural outcome of a multicultural nation.
- gowld 8y agoDog-whistle racism has no place on HN. Poor communities of all races have been underserved since long before whenever you imagine "identity politics" started to "rise" in the USA. Was "identity politics" not enshrined in the US Constitution, which protected racial slavery while giving more-slaveowning states extra voting power over less-slaveowning states https://blackpast.org/aah/three-fifths-clause-united-states-constitution-1787 https://blackpast.org/aah/three-fifths-clause-united-states-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education