The Skinny

For the most part public schools are funded by the local taxpayers by paying their property taxes. In school districts where the property values are high due to a variety of factors. In those school districts where property values are low and continue to slid, there is a dearth of funds for schools.

All this being said I'm still, after all these years, perplexed that public education - that is the children - are subject to the dizzying array of financial factors that I believe shouldn't have anything to do with the quality of education that EVERYONE deserves.

When people talk about reform perhaps it ought to have more to do with funding than tinkering with the structure of schools.

Dick