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Originally posted by Little32
For example, it terms of public school funding: each school receives a certain amount of funding per child from the federal government and that money is supplement by funding from property taxes. Of course, the schools in the more wealthy neighborhoods are more well-equipped. And, while I am a believer in education being what you make it, seeing that other children's education seems to be valued so much more than your own can be demoralizing. (This is in my home state, I don't know if this is the case everywhere else.)
So, to sum up: MORE EQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES, especially within the public service sector.
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How do you account for the following:
1) The countries surpassing us in education every day spend FAR less per pupil than the avg. American public school district?
2) The District of Columbia which spend FAR more per pupil than any other school district in the nation, still has educational succes rates for sub par?
3) In TX we had the Robinhood Act that took money from "rich" school districts and gave it to the "poor" ones and after 10 years of the act the newly rich (due to Robinhood Act and spending about 2k more per student than the state average) still had failing test scores?
4) Urban school districts often are the "rich" school districts b/c public schools are supported by tax dollars and urban centers,like Houston, generate far more property tax dollars than our suburban neighbors like Cypress-Fairbanks- yet CyFair schools are better than HISD schools?
In all honesty these are facts, and if like the News and Politics forum you need me to show you a supporting link I can, but I will only do that if you ask
. Call me lazy
. I am a native Houstonian, now residing in DC so I grew up with this issue and now I face it everyday. I know that when I have children that althoug DC spends about 13k per student, about 6k more than what TX does, the schools are STILL horrible and my kids will likely go to private school (yet another *tax* of living in the District). If money is the issue- why does the DC situation still exist?
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