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Any schools with resource disparity and missing opportunity. The term 'inner-city' is loaded with republican goo these days.

I'll transfer another 10% of military budget to the people who lump all the people under fancy communist terms if they can prove all those individual people are communists and enough of them who are communists have enough entrenched power to ruining everything like is claimed.

Who is really dragging us down? Openly cheap cynics or corrupt inner-city communists?

08-16-2014 , 10:07 AM

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Low Key

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Originally Posted by DudeImBetter

Citation, esp re: public schools? Need something good to throw in my friend's face who doesn't buy into this.

Let me google scholar that for you:

http://www.udel.edu/johnmack/researc...ol_funding.pdf

08-18-2014 , 02:14 PM

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It's never spent wisely, that's the ****ing problem! Administrators and entrenched bad teachers soak it up. It's standard operating procedure for low-level gov't apparatchiks.

as I thought I implied above, a recent study showed that you're wrong. That is, there are many great schools that are run well. And there is a strong correlation between high performing schools and wealth in the area.

It is true that much improved is needed in many districts with bad admin and teachers. But this does not mean that public education does not work nor does it dispel the idea that additional monies can improve school results.

08-18-2014 , 02:18 PM

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Citation, esp re: public schools? Need something good to throw in my friend's face who doesn't buy into this.

I know low key just cited something. I admit that I can't link at the moment because I'd have to track down where I heard it. I DO know that I was listening to an interview with someone who studied it. That being said, I listen to a lot of Podcasts (could have been Freakonomics) and when I drive a lot of news talk. Also some TV news, etc.

Since Low Key already found something I'm just going to defer to his article for now since it would take me some time to possibly link to my source.

08-18-2014 , 02:47 PM

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Low Key

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two days ago ain't just, homey

08-18-2014 , 04:02 PM

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So how much of public education's woes could be resolved by ending the property tax connection? Like, isn't that how a community's public schools are funded...by the property taxes in said community?

08-22-2014 , 11:39 AM

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Quite a bit. But then you'd have Whites bitching about their kids not being afforded the educations they deserve...

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08-22-2014 , 11:45 AM

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Woman told me yesterday that in her location (Henrico county, va) there was a school tax for property owners that amounted to $8,000 per year.

Standard? Was under the impression it was rolled into the property tax, but maybe it differs by locality...?

08-23-2014 , 05:52 PM

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Its Levied by the city and/or County.

Schools are a sr taxing district so they get first dibs on tax money. They can also Levy bonds for capital improvements

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