Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/29
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- --- Don Dory <dorysrus@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Another movement in the funding of schools is the equalization
> movement.
> That's where the state allocates the property taxes to
> districts in "need".
> For example, in Johnson County, Kansas their excess monies go
> to the rural
> western regions. So no matter how willing the locals are to
> fund the
> schools their children go to for the most part they are unable
> to. A few
> years ago the Kansas City, MO district under court order
> nearly bankrupted
> K-12 education through the rest of Missouri.
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You fail to mention the REASON for the court order. How
about putting things in context? The good people of Kansas
City, Missouri's white suburbs had "gerrymandered" their school
districts in order to remain "seperate but unequal".
A comprehensive discusion of the failures of our society in
the education of its children would make previous OT rants look
like one liners.
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>
> As to "no money for paper" that is largely a result of federal
> mandates to
> disadvantaged students that requires a whole raft of
> non-teaching staff to
> administer.
>
> Just another viewpoint.
>
> Don
> dorysrus@mindspring.com
>
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