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> Its weird that education is payed for completely by property taxes in the US. This isn’t true. From the CPC Popular Front funded Brookings Institution. htt
by barry-cotter 7y ago
> Its weird that education is payed for completely by property taxes in the US.
This isn’t true.
From the CPC Popular Front funded Brookings Institution.
https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-progressive-is-school-funding-in-the-united-states/ https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-progressive-is-school...
> School funding systems vary by state, but in the typical state, the financing of K-12 education is shared roughly equally by the state and local governments (with the federal government covering less than 10 percent of the cost). Most states have provisions designed to target additional funding to districts attended by low-income students, with the goal of making up for these districts’ limited capacity to raise revenue through property taxes and other local sources.
> Nationwide, per-student K-12 education funding from all sources (local, state, and federal) is similar, on average, at the districts attended by poor students ($12,961) and non-poor students ($12,640), a difference of 2.5 percent in favor of poor students.