NCLB-Education

[SentToStud]

To whoever wrote this (before deleting?!?) or believes it:

"As a renter, I pay no property (read, school) taxes, and frankly, I should. I benefit from an educated populace, too...."



Huh?

Sorry, just because you pay no property tax doesn't mean your own tax dollars do not go toward education. Hardly. In every state I've lived in, state funding EXCEEDS local funding of public schools.

To further inform you, state school funding is provided through legislative act. I assure you that each of those laws includes language that "GUARANTEES each child an educational opportunity..."

To me, that language confers a right, not a privilege.

The purpose of state funding (which you pay for) is, in part, to "equalize" educational opportunies for students regardless of the local property tax revenues generated for each individual district.

Local property taxes do not fully fund public schools. Not even close.