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Guess where's all da good schools?
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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
That's pretty funny, since that article -- you know, the one that you linked to -- is about a school in Boston.
Here in California, we thank the conservatives for destroying what used to be pretty excellent public schools by removing the funding. Property taxes are capped, and localities depend on state funding. In order to raise taxes locally, you need a 2/3 vote. There was a ballot measure a few years ago to let towns hold a vote to reduce this threshold, and the conservatives defeated it -- apparently not content to have ruined the public schools in Orange County or wherever they live, they need to make sure that the lefties in Marin County and Berkeley can't opt to tax themselves to make their own schools better.
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The Texas legislature is almost guaranteed to go into special session this summer to resolve the School Financing Fiasco. It's a nationwide problem, I believe.
The solution that's on the table right now was drawn up by a Stanford think tank. No one, with the exception of Guv. Goodhair, is particuarly impressed.
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