Re:Why do poor school kids have to clean up rich commuters’ ...
by rootusrootus on Thursday March 07, 2019 @10:00AM
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If they are commuters, they are paying Oregon income tax.
Re:Why do poor school kids have to clean up rich commuters’ ...
by jessaustin on Thursday March 07, 2019 @10:42AM
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What is that, four identical posts saying the same identical thing? You're so excited about Oregon's income tax rules that you've forgotten the only relevant fact about USA public school funding. Schools aren't funded by income taxes. School districts are funded by local property taxes. The property taxes paid by Clark county residents and their landlords go to their own children's schools. The schools of the children they poison every day don't see a dime.
The highway carries a lot of cummuters from Clark County in a different state.
> twist, the kid’s family may only be able to afford...
The district used to be poor and black (back when the school was created) its pretty middle class and gentrified these days though. The freeway that cuts through there mostly is surrounded by industry and a hospital until it gets further north of the school. Part of this widening proposal is actually to cap sections of the freeway where it cuts through the more commercial part to the south of the school.
Unfortunately the school is really in a shit place regardless of widening or not. It shouldn’t be next to a freeway.