Re:California teacher pension debt overwhelms school budgets
by seanmcdirmid on Thursday August 09, 2018 @02:02PM
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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.
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Re:California teacher pension debt overwhelms school budgets
by dragonwriter on Thursday August 09, 2018 @02:16PM
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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
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How well will a state based funding system work in states like Mississippi?