Re:In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build
by ktRolster on Saturday April 16, 2016 @03:26PM
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A school district is a system of assigning kids to schools via address. In California, the schools are funded equally based on property tax collected at the state level. Schools are funded based on how many students are sitting in class, not on where they are located.
Re:In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build
by protomyth on Saturday April 16, 2016 @04:03PM
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> A school district is a system of assigning kids to schools via address.
I think I'm aware of this, and it is often not what the parent's want used as a determinate. If someone says they have moved somewhere to get their kids in a "good" school district then the system has failed.
> In California, the schools are funded equally based on property tax collected at the state level. Schools are funded based on how many students are sitting in class, not on where they are located.
Except for districts where local property tax portion exceeds the funding formula levels since the property tax is kept local to the district. Also, CA schools are funded on more than property taxes such as having an income tax share.
Re:In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build
by pkaye on Saturday April 16, 2016 @02:41PM
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Actually in Fremont, there is one school district with 5 high schools. The city is carved out into districts and generally based on proximity of home address, students assigned to the appropriate high school. The thing though is there is a huge ranking difference between the high schools. The top one is maybe in the 99% percentile in the state while the lower one is maybe 60% percentile. This makes for a huge pricing difference between houses maybe a few blocks apart to the degree of a 2x price difference. So the ones in the expensive houses will pay more property taxes but I believe the funding is equally divided among the high schools based on student population. In the end, probably the big difference is racial difference among different parts of the city and the affluence and education background of the parents that drive the difference in the school rankings.
Perhaps abolishing the whole idea of school districts and assigning kids to schools via address as opposed to parental decision. The whole pay for schools via property tax and local levies has a pretty big negative impact on students from low income neighborhoods. Its classism baked into the system. Backpack tuitions would right a lot of wrongs in the education of our children.