Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] really off topic funding schools
From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 18:10:07 -0400
References: <r01050100-1014-93A087685AF011D68F86003065C7DF66@[10.0.1.44]>

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.

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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