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Education

aswanson

(50 posts) Mon Feb 8, 2016, 01:37 AM Feb 2016

School Funding

What do you think about school funding? Especially in Illinois. What do you think about the fact that so much of school funding is decided on property taxes?

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School Funding (Original Post) aswanson Feb 2016 OP

I don't know how it's done in Illinois, elleng Feb 2016 #1

elleng

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1. I don't know how it's done in Illinois,

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Mon Feb 8, 2016, 01:40 AM

Feb 2016

but suspect it's based on property taxes in most states. The allocation of funding is a serious problem, resulting in large inequities through the country imo.

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