In Arizona, school funding was always deemed unfair, because property taxes went to that school district, instead of being distributed by the state as in CA.
Still, the inequities persist. As sdrealtor pointed out, only the school districts with parents who can afford supplies and fundraisers, have the materials the kids really need.
Funding is still unfair, because it is INSUFFICIENT. For too long, our voters, most of whom have no kids, thought they don’t want to pay for the education of other people’s kids and voted down new taxes and other education reform. What these people fail to realize is that they need to educate the very people who social security contributions will support them in old age. With 20% of CAs not finishing high school, who will support them in old age? Who will make our economy? It is short sighted to covet money from kids’ education, just because of some resentment of other people’s kids. Even Thornberg scolds this view, and here I agree with him.
