Why do poor school kids have to clean up rich commuters’ pollution?

Re:Why do poor school kids have to clean up rich commuters’ ... by kurthr on Thursday March 07, 2019 @09:38AM (#19328306)

Well, in Oregon they are poorly funded, because it's a low tax state, but many expensive things like teacher salaries are state funded. This is due to a Supreme Court decision requirement to provide equal education, and it's unclear if they have fully complied, but generally your statement is not correct.

In many large states (Texas, California, NY) schools are almost fully state funded.

https://crosscut.com/2017/12/oregon-school-funding-education...

https://education.findlaw.com/curriculum-standards-school-fu...

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Re:Why do poor school kids have to clean up rich commuters’ ... by ci5er on Thursday March 07, 2019 @11:36AM (#19329440)

If Texas schools are state-funded, I'm paying way too high property taxes to live in Westlake! (Austin TX)[0]...

[0] Yes that was an exaggerated response - but not by as much as you might think. https://www.texastribune.org/2019/02/15/texas-school-funding...

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