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Re:California teacher pension debt overwhelms school budgets by seanmcdirmid on Thursday August 09, 2018 @02:02PM (#17726713)
That isn’t true. In most states, the local district sets their own budget and legislators might provide some additional funding/oversights. Prop 13 in California gave state legislators more power (since school districts had to rely on less property taxes and more direct state funding) but that is unique to California.
Re:California teacher pension debt overwhelms school budgets by dragonwriter on Thursday August 09, 2018 @02:16PM (#17726882)
Prop 13 has nothing to do with it, the 1971 California Supreme Court decision mandating statewide equal per-pupil funding is the issue.

While obviously that court decision is unique to California, the broad idea of statewide funding equalization is not a policy that exists only in California, and, in fact, the vast majority of states have most school funding driven by state-set formulas.

Re:California teacher pension debt overwhelms school budgets by scarface74 on Thursday August 09, 2018 @02:22PM (#17726947)
How well will a state based funding system work in states like Mississippi?