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If you are referencing property taxes funding schools, you should know that it actually only funds about half of total school funding. The other half comes from
by mrep 5y ago
If you are referencing property taxes funding schools, you should know that it actually only funds about half of total school funding. The other half comes from federal and state governments and the way they give out funding is to selectively counteract that misallocation such that 47 states actually allocate more per-student funding to poor areas than to wealthier ones and according to this article [0], it has been this way since at least 1995.
So if you actually informed people that the wealthy areas don't get more funding, I don't see why it would be an issue.
[0]: https://apps.urban.org/features/school-funding-do-poor-kids-get-fair-share/ https://apps.urban.org/features/school-funding-do-poor-kids-...
- giantg2 5y agoI thought it says they are relatively neutral? And that 35 states have policies to counter local discrepancies? Maybe I'm just missing stuff - that page is a design/user nightmare. But I do agree that the pet student funding tends to be pretty fairly distributed. "So if you actually informed people that the wealthy areas don't get more funding, I don't see why it would be an issue." I generally agree. I think the main point that the rich areas would not like, is that often the state money has restrictions on what it can be used for, or comes with policy requirements attached. If I remember correctly, PA schools could lose state funding if they didn't implement and enforce the state's masking policy. This caused a bit of friction in many districts.