Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 4/28/02 Tim Atherton wrote: > >WOW - this is in the greatest and richest nation in the world? Doesn't the >state pay for education? Ordinary schools depend on charity. I think we'd do >more good plotting to overthrow the government. > >tim It's typical that the state does NOT pay for education - education is typically funded very close to the schools - mostly by property taxes. In California it's different since the days of Prop 13 which resulted in the state funding the schools through funding passed back by the state - with lots of strings. Thus local conditions impose restrictions on individual school systems and there can be vast differences between schools which are only a few miles apart based upon the socio-economic makeup of the communities or upon the desire of some communities to shoulder the tax burden required to operate the schools well. In California the schools are very poor. I live in a district that still has music and art as a part of the curriculum K through 12. That's incredibly rare in this state. But it takes a parcel-tax to make this happen or districts that are wealthy - say Palo Alto. Adam Bridge - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html