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Re:Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas unt... by scarface74 on Sunday June 21, 2020 @01:19AM (#23590019)
I’m going to go off the rails more. You can’t reform the education system in a vacuum without dealing with larger societal problems that affect the US.

The war on drugs - have unfairly targeted minorities breaking up families and when they get out of jail, its harder to get a job because of their criminal record. No matter how good the education system is, if the students home life is unstable, education suffers.

Government funding through court ordered fines and tickets that also cause people to enter the criminal justice system when they can’t afford to pay. They end up in jail and lose their jobs. Again an unstable home life.

Lack of affordable higher education. Also, colleges love to give spots to non US citizens because they pay the full tuition costs.

Education funding is based on local property taxes. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

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Re:Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas unt... by hintymad on Sunday June 21, 2020 @04:52PM (#23595314)
Not in California. The State is responsible for allocating education fund, with a few exception.
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Re:Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas unt... by scarface74 on Sunday June 21, 2020 @05:34PM (#23595601)
33% of education funding comes from the local government.

https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/281

https://ed100.org/uploads/images/shares/CA-19-20-budget.png

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Re:Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas unt... by hintymad on Sunday June 21, 2020 @09:44PM (#23596774)
But the California State government allocates the fund, right? If the state government decides where the fund goes, then can we still conclude that "the richer gets richer and the poor gets poorer" from the fact that local tax funds education?
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Re:Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas unt... by scarface74 on Monday June 22, 2020 @01:15AM (#23597473)
I am assuming the state sends each school district the same amount of money per student and the local government makes up the difference. So yes it is the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

I know in my Metro area the more affluent parts of the city, love breaking off into their own city to keep their money even more localized.

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Re:Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas unt... by dragonwriter on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:18AM (#23600434)
> I am assuming the state sends each school district the same amount of money

It does not, not even per pupil since there is a 20% supplement for each designated “high needs” pupil, and additional funds iif “high needs” pupils exceed a certain threshold.

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Re:Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas unt... by dragonwriter on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:20AM (#23600447)
> But the California State government allocates the fund, right?

It allocates the state funds that make up the vast majority of education funding among the counties. It doesn't specifically direct how counties spend the money.

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Re:Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas unt... by dragonwriter on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:15AM (#23600399)
> The State is responsible for allocating education fund, with a few exception.

That’s between untrue and misleading. The state allocates a very large share of the total education funding among counties, but it does not allocate the funding counties have (whether from the state or from local funds) by line item.

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