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Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by alistairSH on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @10:28AM (#10778240)
Not in the US. Public schools are funded and managed by the local governments (usually county or city). So, only residents of those locales get to attend.

You could send a child to a private school in the suburbs, but that's doesn't gain you anything over sending the kid to a private school closer to home. Plus, it costs an additional $6000+/year. That's tuition at my local Catholic high school; it's an average school, no better than the publics in the same area.

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Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by cmarschner on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @04:13PM (#10780428)
<outsider's shrug> From a policy perspective it seems to be a no-brainer then to move school financing to the state level, at least for a part of the schools.
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Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by Spooky23 on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @10:58PM (#10787042)
It really needs to be all or nothing, otherwise you're just giving the districts more spending power.

State budgets are abstract, and it's easy for school boards to ask for more money over time.

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